Recruiting a Star Team

knowing that I could deliver a large part of it by recruiting and working with a considerably expanded team of dedicated volunteers. By the time you read these lines, such a team will be in place. To promote openness in how Software is managed and to help those who want to undertake a similar exercise, here’s how we gathered 139 applications and recruited a team of 40 new regular volunteers and almost 100 potential reviewers. Two risks in a recruitment exercise are getting too few or too many applications. We countered the rst risk by spreading our bets regarding the dissemination of our call for volunteers. We were able to gather interesting data regarding the effectiveness of the channels we used, thanks both to the distinct URLs we used to advertise the call and to