Mentoring is also something I really value dearly, both for the mentors I’ve had and continue to have, and each of the special people I’ve had the privilege of mentoring. For me, while my mentors have mostly been core devs I’ve met though my Python development work, I’ve also met mentees on this very Discourse, on GitHub, as well as IRL in my role in an atmospheric science department at a research university.
In terms of the core dev side, there’s an active ongoing thread in the Committers section discussing this, as there are a lot of core devs interested in mentorship, and interest in gathering resources and meta-mentorship for potential mentors: