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* The video team in your building may be able to help you with this, depending on their workload.
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* Contact: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@fosdem.org>.
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### Safety and crowd control
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Every devroom needs at minumum one person present wearing the blue devroom shirt. You can get them from the infodesk.
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These will help building managers, video team, volunteers, staff and visitors to figure out who to talk to. This
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improves response time in case you need help or there are video/other issues.
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They will make you recognisable and identifiable as in charge in case of emergencies or when doing crowd control.
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In the unlikely case we would need to evacuate FOSDEM, the devroom team has to lead people to safety and make sure
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the devroom is empty. When at the evacuation point you will report to FOSDEM staff so a good view of the situation can be
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created. This enables us to communicate a decent situation overview to the rescue services.
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Devrooms tend to fill up quite a lot. Try to make sure visitors don't leave too many seats open so that as much
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people as possible can attend the talks. Make sure people are not sitting on the floor all over the room.
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If there is risk of overcrowding, place somebody at the door and use the full signs to control the situation. Make sure
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to have some time in between talks to let people leave and enter without disturbing the speaker.
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### Trash and maintenance
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Guide devroom visitors to use the trash cans available in the devroom and try to keep the room clean.
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Building managers should be able to provide you with extra trash bags in case of trash can overflow. They will
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also be able to tell you were to get rid of trash at the end of the day.
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Report any damage or issue to building managers. You can open windows to keep the temperature bearable and the
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indoor air breathable. Unfortunately not all rooms might have windows that open. In case you open them, make sure to
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close them at the end of the day to avoid animals/birds entering the devroom.
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Because most rooms cannot have a dedicated volunteer to manage the camera and

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