Title:     Mentoring
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# Mentoring

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](/gsoc.html)
- [Participate in the incubator](http://incubator.apache.org/) 
- [Walk a beginner through their first patch](/mentoring/firstpatch.html) 
- [Coach a new committer](/mentoring/committer.html)
- [Take a new PMC member under your wing](/mentoring/pmc.html)
- [Encourage someone to mentor someone else](/mentoring/mentor.html)