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| title: Mentoring |
| slug: index |
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| # Mentoring |
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| 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. |
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| Anyone can be a mentor. You just have to take a moment to encourage |
| someone else to participate. |
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| Here's some concrete ways you can provide mentoring to other members of |
| your community. |
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| - [GSoC](/gsoc/) |
| - [Participate in the incubator](https://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) |
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