[Marco van Herwaarden]

It is a great idea to have mentors, and it has been proposed a few times before.

The problem is that it will be almost impossible to get enough mentors for the amount of people needing them.

If someone could be a mentor, they are often already very busy themself, and will already help people at the moments they have some spare time. Sometimes a mentor-like relationship comes from this, but that would also require a "click" between the 2.

The problem with becoming an "official mentor" would be that you would loose control (or at least it will feel that way) over when you help others.

Until now all projects like this have unfortunatly failed.