{"id":237,"date":"2014-12-16T18:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2021-02-10T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T08:03:43","slug":"i-started-mentorship-for-opw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"I started Mentorship for OPW."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I have volunteered as a mentor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.gnome.org\/OutreachProgramForWomen\/\">OPW program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The internship of my mentee, <a href=\"http:\/\/meincodekraft.blogspot.co.at\/\">Asal Mirzaeva (Asalle )<\/a> has started a few days ago, and so has my mentorship. (Although we have already test-driven the mentor-mentee cooperation during Asalle&#8217;s qualification task.)<\/p>\n<p>Her job is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to replace manually written byteswapping code in the X-Server with code that is generated from the XCB protocol definitions,<\/li>\n<li>and to add proper checks to the incoming protocol data, to fix some <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ccc.de\/browse\/congress\/2013\/30C3_-_5499_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312291830_-_x_security_-_ilja_van_sprundel.html\">security problems<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asalle is currently setting up the build and debug environment for building and debugging the X-Server. (Debugging the X-Server is quite tricky as you can imagine.)<\/p>\n<p>Asalle is very talented and she already has a good understanding of how the protocol handling and byteswapping works in the X-Server, after reading the relevant source code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I have volunteered as a mentor of the OPW program. The internship of my mentee, Asal Mirzaeva (Asalle ) has started a few days ago, and so has my mentorship. (Although we have already test-driven the mentor-mentee cooperation during Asalle&#8217;s qualification task.) Her job is: to replace manually written byteswapping code in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,16],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clinhart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}