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Booth design

How to design a booth

This page shall help you to set-up and design your personal FSFE booth. Because although that each booth is different, we try to represent a corporate identity. Also, we like to share good and bad practices to learn from each other.

Below you find various pictures of booths from the FSFE. They have different characteristics and each has its pros and cons. What is best depends on the audience and the event itself. You may want to follow a similar style as other booths at the event, but you also want to be different enough that people notice!

Make a good first impression

There is no second chance for the first impression, so pay attention to your appearance

Little helpers

Examples

Freiheit Statt Angst

http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/201408-booth-at-FSA-800px.jpeg An example for an outdoor booth at a street festival

Wikimania

http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/201606-booth-at-wikimania-800px.jpeg A booth can be put up very simple with a single table only. The tinyer the booth, the more it sells out to use your environment to put up posters and balloons to get more attention for your booth.

FSFE Summit

http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/201609-booth-at-fsfe-summit-800px.jpeg The booth at our FSFE summit. Worth to mention here is that every item that is sold has a price-tag attached. This is very helpful in many aspects: People can see that an item is sold and not for free, it saves time for everyone by avoiding 100 times a day the question "how much is this" and more introvert people can see the price and decide without having to ask.

Froscon

http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170820-booth-and-team-at-froscon-800px.jpg A very good arranged booth. Especially worth to notice the armory at the left side of the booth, that makes browsing clothes pretty simple.

TDose

http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/201611-booth-at-tdose-800px.jpeg

34C3

http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/201712-booth-at-34c3-800px.jpeg

Makerfair

http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170610-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth-800px.jpg An example of a booth that also uses a screen to show the Free Your Android campaign.

RMLL / LSM

http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/201807-booth-at-rmll-800px.jpg Although it looks very welcoming, this might be a little overloaded with people behind a booth : )

Reports from successful booths