Hello, I was at DebConf for the entirety of week 7, and took another small trip just after that during week 8. I returned home mid last week, it was a long international trip in all, ~15 days.
DebConf was amazing. This is the first time I've been to a conference like this, and it was a great experience. I met and chatted with a lot of persons, and it was great to share details about my project. I also met my colleague, Kai-Chung Yan. It was nice to meet him in person after working on this project, and discuss and share our ideas. We also discussed a few ideas with other people at the conference. Kai-Chung gave a talk about our project [1], and I helped him out by answering questions by attendees at the end of the talk. A video can be found at [2]. [1]: https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/18 [2]: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/debconf16/Android_SDK_Tools_in_Debian.webm Unfortunately my laptop was stolen just before the talk, due to my carelessness. Thankfully it was encrypted, and didn't contain much sensitive data (it was just a thin client, an arm chromebook, with debian in a chroot). I work on this project using my main desktop system at home, so it won't be affected too much by this. After getting back, I caught up with what happened while I was at DebConf, and we (the students) had a discussion about that. There was work done to provide installers for the binaries google provides to have a working SDK soon, as trying to build it all from source is very complex. I'll be trying to help continue that next week, and then switch back to building it all from source again. Need to talk with my mentor about that. Regards. Chirayu Desai
