{"id":541,"date":"2016-07-29T11:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/?p=541"},"modified":"2016-07-29T11:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:02:41","slug":"one-year-of-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/apinheiro\/2016\/07\/one-year-of-mesa\/","title":{"rendered":"One year of Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"
Changes<\/h6>\n

During the last year and something, my work at Igalia was focused on the Intel i965 driver for Mesa, the open source OpenGL implementation. Iago<\/a> and Samuel<\/a> were working for some time, then joined Edu and Ant\u00eda, and then I joined myself, as the fifth igalian.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons I will always remember working on this project is that I was also being a father for a year and something, so it will be always easy to relate one and the other. Changes! A project change plus a total life change.<\/p>\n

In fact the parenthood affected a little how I joined the project. We (as Igalia) decided that I would be a good candidate to join the project around April. But as my leave of absence was estimated to be around the last weeks of May, and it would be strange to start a project and suddenly disappear, we decided to postpone the joining just after the parental leave. So I spent some time closing and transferring the stuff I was doing at Igalia at that moment, and starting to get into the specifics of Intel driver, and then at the end of May, my parental leave started. Pedro is here!<\/p>\n

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Pedro’s day zero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Parenthood<\/h6>\n

Mesa can be a challenging project, but nothing compared to how to parent. A lot of changes. In Spain the more usual parental leave for the father is 15 days, where the only\u00a0 flexibility is that you need to take 2 just after the child has born, and chose when take the other 13. But those 13 needs to be taken in a row. So I decided to took 15 days in a row. Igalia gives you 15 extra days. In fact, the equivalent to 15 days, as they gives you flexibility of how to take them. So instead of took them as 15 full-day, I decided to take 30 part-time days. Additionally Pedro’s grandmother (maternal) came to live with us for a month. That allowed us to do a step by step go back to work. So it was something like:<\/p>\n