Inquiring about finding mentors in the drupal community

Question

Recently, I've noticed that drupal.org has added user profile fields for areas such as adding drupal ID's for attributing thanks to some mentors.

I was curious as to see if there currently is a means or process of seeking or finding a drupal mentor online or through drupal.org? I would ask people in person but i really don't know that many drupalers at the current moment.

Would the best place to look be the forums on Drupal.org? Or just persistent begging on IRC? I would eventually like to mentor others myself once i feel comfortable