Being open about your research and development activities can seem alien. How can you be open without giving away the crown jewels? How do you participate in an open community? What is acceptable behaviour and what is not? In this talk, Noirin Shirley will introduce the Community Development project at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This project seeks to provide mentorships for people new to the Apache way of developing software in a collaborative manner. It draws on the success of the Google Summer of Code and provides a mentoring programme that is both broader, in terms of contribution types and background, and more focussed, in terms of addressing ASF projects specifically. In this presentation, we will hear how this, and similar projects run at other foundations, can be used to enhance skills in the collaborative development of software.