For organizers who own the hall, not a stand in it
Expo FloorAn expo floor where every booth gets traffic and every sponsor gets what their tier promised.
Enter the floor you were given, the booths by sponsor tier and what each tier already promised, the venue's access hours, power and rigging rules, and get - free in your browser, in the order the skill sets - what may not move written down first, the venue facts settled before any design, the layout that carries attendees past every booth with the booths it cannot reach named, a spec under every tier's promise (eight rows, no blanks), power and network per booth, the setup and teardown schedule as offsets from one anchor, staffing and conduct rules and a traffic mechanic for the unreached booths; then the exhibitor manual and the pre-doors walk-through. Route, don't decide: the signed floor plan, the aggregate capacity, the tier ladder and the conduct policy never move here. It never invents a dimension, a power figure, a price, a time, a booth, a sponsor or an approval, routes every fire lane, egress, occupancy and rigging sign-off to the venue and the authorities, and labels every number of its own self-set.
The event free
The schedule's anchor: every row is an offset from it.
Teardown never starts before it.
Blank means today.
The interview free
The skill's eleven questions, word for word
- What is the floor, physically: a dedicated hall, a room, or a corridor around the food? Decides which layout rungs exist at all.
- How many booths, across how many tiers, and what did each tier's package already promise on floor presence? Route a missing answer to samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-sponsor-pricing, don't invent the ladder.
- What does the signed floor plan give you: entrance, food service, hallway-track space, where power and network already reach?
- What are the venue's access hours, and is there secure overnight storage for sponsors' equipment as well as yours? A "no" removes a whole setup rung rather than demoting it.
- Does the venue permit rigging - anything suspended from the ceiling or attached to the building - and what sign-off does it require?
- Who supplies booth power, what does a drop cost, and by when must it be requested?
- What already exists that you'd otherwise build: last edition's floor plan, a screen and someone to run it, printed signage, a fire sign-off already booked?
- By what date must the floor plan be signed off and printed? Work back from that, not the event date - a printed plan is the least reversible artifact here.
- One-off edition, or recurring, where this year's plan becomes next year's starting point?
- What is the effort ceiling: volunteer hours on the dock, coordination capacity per sponsor, political capital for telling a top-tier sponsor where they sit?
- Who runs this event: an independent community group, or a vendor or foundation?
Q2 is the tiers table in card 3; Q4, Q5 and Q6 are the venue facts in card 4.
The tiers, the spec draft and the booths free
Copy the promise from the package as sold - the ladder is fixed here. A missing answer goes back to pricing; the page never invents a ladder.
A footprint is a dimension (3 x 3 m, 96" x 30"), never an adjective. Power and network rows come from the venue facts. Every row is mandatory.
Blank: the page lists one booth per sold booth from the tiers. A spot noted as a corner, an alcove or far from the food is checked against the layout.
The venue facts, settled before any design free
List the day before the event too, if the venue grants it - the overnight build needs it.
Your own record of the venue's review - the page never says anything was approved.
The floor, worked out free
What the page flags
What may not move, and the venue facts still open
The layout and traffic pattern - re-ranked, deleted rungs struck
The tier-to-spec catalog - eight rows per tier, every promise checked
Power and network per booth
The master schedule - offsets from doors open, and the window menu
Staffing and conduct - provisioning only
The traffic mechanic - aimed at the booths the layout cannot reach
The review before print, and the walk before doors
The files free
The catalog, the power order for the venue and the schedule as spreadsheets, the schedule as a calendar, the walk-through as a checklist, and everything the page worked out.
The floor plan metered
Pricing as soon as the session is ready...
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Caveats
The page's check of this reply
Saved floor plans
How it works - and what is sourced
The order is the skill's: run the interview and write down what may not move; settle the venue facts before designing anything; pick the layout and traffic pattern; write the tier-to-spec catalog, one row per tier; distribute power and network per booth; build the master setup and teardown schedule as offsets from a fixed anchor; set the staffing and conduct provisioning rules; choose the traffic mechanic for the booths the layout could not reach; get the floor plan reviewed before it is printed; walk the floor before doors open. One floor brief goes to sponsor fulfillment to execute per signed sponsor - never a per-sponsor tracking matrix here.
Sourced from the skill and its references: the eleven questions, the four menus with their rankings, promotions and deletions (no secure storage deletes the overnight build; a corridor deletes the loop, the grid and the hub), why two of the four menus do not diverge, the eight catalog rows, the drop-counting process, the schedule's shape, the staffing, credential and attire rules, and the two review categories. The page's own, said wherever used: the schedule anchors on doors open; a room has no parallel aisles; a spur or an alcove is off every loop, and a corner far from the food is off the flow on every rung but the racetrack; and these self-set lines - one window absorbs 15 booths, a zone slot is 30 minutes for 10 booths, a tiered slot opens 60 minutes earlier, the floor walk is 15 minutes before doors, the room is clear 90 minutes after the last session, the review closes 7 days before print, a deadline under 14 days is soon, a small event is at most 300 people, a large floor is over 40 booths, a 40-word summary and at most 5 caveats. Never set at all: an aisle width, an egress distance, an amperage, a booth-position figure.