Mentoring: We're Doing It Wrong - Leslie Hawthorn
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
Date: 2012-01-20

Dave Neary of the GNOME community recently penned a post [0] on mentoring programs for FOSS communities, and his findings were a bit disheartening. Of all those mentees taken in under various mentoring programs, from Google Summer of Code to the Great Documentation Project, only about 1 in 4 became regular contributors to their mentor's projects.