Dear all!

I am proud to say the jury has reached a decision. And the WINNER is... 

Oh, just first, I should mention that the decision process turned out 
trickier than expected. In fact, I pulled in assistance from two friends 
who work in marketing AND even my fiancee (M.D.) whom I bombarded with a 
zillion questions such as "Which ones catch your eye the most?", "If this 
appeared on your work place, what would the others think when reading 
this?", "Which posters would work better on a board in a stressed and messy 
environment - and which ones for a calmer place?", "What would non-tech 
people think?", etc. There was particular talk about what creates a 
"desire" to go to the webpage.

Well, there was quite a heated debate but in the end there was a next to 
unanimous decision. Can you guess? Well the WINNER is:


Oh, just first, we should have a rundown of all the contributions for 
everyones enjoyment and for reference. 

Here are the final versions of the variants people included. In reviewing 
them we looked at earlier versions also (for instance WiMs many touch ups) 
but there was an agreement the latest was the best anyway so this did not 
affect things. So, here I only include the final versions of the 
contributed variants:

*In ARBITRARY, i.e no particular, order:*


WiMs TW Concept (remade into jpg for display here):

<https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9Nflw7QAuq4/VKhRIlQ5cSI/AAAAAAAAPFY/Ruc5B4AO2qQ/s1600/WiM_final.jpg>

Stephens Ordination:

<https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-aEs5-O5pKkU/VKhQ9IDEehI/AAAAAAAAPFI/fOufnU2r2fY/s1600/Stephen_doctorsorders.jpg>

World of Stephen:
<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nVRrSt2llhg/VKhRDKnCJVI/AAAAAAAAPFQ/3Oic7IA76ik/s1600/Stephen_youcancreate.jpg>
Duartes Node Tree:

<https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tXqCI6M8z2U/VKhQxPc0uxI/AAAAAAAAPFA/J__Vqf1FD9I/s1600/Duarte_Nodetree.jpg>

Duartes Fish:

<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_pQV8bLTcIo/VKhQqTcFujI/AAAAAAAAPE4/vAdL16wZGTE/s1600/Duarte_Fish.jpg>

Duartes Diamond:

<https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rG-nQv68sCM/VKhQlbiEYiI/AAAAAAAAPEw/oMY21pCnxEg/s1600/Duarte_Diamond.jpg>

...and a bonus by Mr. Stickleback himself - AlexHough going ascii (thanx 
Alex!!!)

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We also got encouraging input from several people that has affected some of 
the contributions.

So... are you ready?

My warmest contratulations goes to the fisherman - non other than Duarte!

While I explicitly did state that beautiful graphics were not important - *per 
se* - it is undeniable that his fish catches the eye. A good catch to say 
the least. And you go "hm, what's this". As particularly my fiancee pointed 
out, it also creates a first impression of TW namely that it is something 
polished and slick. Now, both my marketing friends and I have some opinions 
that there probably should be some more "call to action" but on the whole 
we were all *very* impressed.

I also want to bring up WiMs contribution. Bri-li-ant! In fact, it is so 
good that I have made a version myself which I will put up shortly. (Oooh, 
I wish there was a contest ;-)

Of course also my warmest thank you to Stephen! I really liked both the 
doctors order (funny!) and the globe (impressive!) I doubt people would 
understand it was about some kind of personal wiki, but cool nonetheless! 
And I don't think I must mention which one my M.D fiancee liked the most ;-)

GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CONTE... no, wait.. FOR OUR COMMUNITY, GUYS!


So what happens now? Well, the prize money has already been transferred as 
a contribution to Erics Inside TiddlyWiki project (even if via paypal) and 
he will, if not already, be informed about Duartes win. BTW, I urge 
everyone to take this remaining last day to jump on his SUPER PERK UPGRADE 
<https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-tiddlywiki-the-missing-manual>. 
I just did myself the other day. Imagine your friends or colleagues seeing 
your poster, starting to use TW... only to find out you are also part of 
the book!!! And this/these books, Inside TiddlyWiki, will be around for a 
looong time, for sure!

Let me also tell you that Jeremy has promised that ALL posters *can* become 
available via tw.com meaning that anyone wanting to do a quick printout can 
choose whichever is most suitable at that time! However, there are some 
file format aspects. In a private conversation, Jeremy wrote:

"Basically, in order to print at decent quality at A3 size we'd need the 
> JPEG to be around 3,500 by 5,000 pixels. SVG is just the most web-friendly 
> resolution independent format (decent quality still requires that any 
> embedded bitmaps be of a sufficiently high resolution)."
>

Now, the poster competition was about A4 (figuring this is what will result 
in the maximum numbers of posters actually put up). But, particularly for 
the winning poster, would anyone be willing to help make it perfect 
according to Jeremys description? (Yes, we're all looking at you @Duarte ;-)


Ok, thank you guys. It was a great contest and we did it for us! 


<:-)



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