DebConf 18

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This is a quick recap of what happened during my DebConf 18.

24 July:

after buying a new laptop I didn't set up a build system for Debian on it. I finally did it, with cowbuilder. It was straightforward to set up and works quite fast.
shopping for electronics. Among other things, I bought myself a new USB-C power supply that I can use for laptop and phone, and now I can have a power supply for home and one always in my backpack for traveling. I also bought a new pair of headphones+microphone, since I cannot wear in-ear, and I only had the in-ear ones that came with my phone.
while trying out the new headphones, I unexpectedly started playing loud music in the hacklab. I then debugged audio pin mapping on my new laptop and reported #904437
fixed debtags.debian.org nightly maintenance scripts, which have been mailing me errors for a while.

25 July:

uploaded new version of wreport
investigated odd 0-padded .jpg files generated by Open Camera on my phone and bumped severity of #874275; reported https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/tickets/465/ upstream.
reviewed multiple people talk notes
bought new shoes, since the ones I had started digging a hole through the skin of one of my ankles.

26 July:

I needed to debug a wreport FTBFS on a porterbox, and since the procedure to set up a build system on a porterbox was long and boring, I wrote debug-on-porterbox
Fixed a wreport FTBFS and replaced it with another FTBFS, that I still haven't managed to track down.

27 July:

worked on multiple people talk notes, alone and with Rhonda
informal FD/DAM brainstorming with jmw
local antiharassment coordination with Tassia and Taowa
talked to ansgar about how to have debtags tags reach ftp-master automatically, without my manual intervention
watched a wonderful lunar eclipse

28 July:

29 July:

30 July:

31 July:

01 August:

02 August:

03 August:

Multiple People talk
Debug Boot of my laptop with UEFI with Steve, and found out that HP firmware updates for it can only be installed using Windows. I am really disappointed with HP for this, given it's a rather high-end business laptop.

04 August: