For those who lack colleagues sitting by and ready to help you getting involved into open source will provide you a kind of mentoring. Then there are people wh

For those who lack colleagues sitting by and ready to help you getting involved into open source will provide you a kind of mentoring. Then there are people who will mentor you for money. Giles Bowkett (http://gilesbowkett.com http://gilesbowkett.com) did this a while a go. Not bad option at all. I'd see paying for someone way smarter than my self to teach me as an amazing investment.