Effective mentoring programs
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Dave Neary shares his thoughts on mentoring programs in the open source community: "Most mentoring programs I have seen and participated in don’t have a very good success rate, though. In this article, I look at why that is the case, and what can be put in place to increase the success rate when recruiting new developers."