A major job of Community Development is mentoring. Mentoring is the process of actively bringing someone along in a discipline - investing your time into influencing the future. Time spent mentoring today will pay off for years to come.

Anyone can be a mentor. You just have to take a moment to encourage someone else to participate.

Here's some concrete ways you can provide mentoring to other members of your community.

• GSoC
• Participate in the incubator
• Walk a beginner through their first patch
• Coach a new committer
• Take a new PMC member under your wing
• Encourage someone to mentor someone else