Managing volunteers is hard.
On one side, you need people to do work without paying them. So you shouldn't be choosy and just be grateful to receive help.
On the other side, it is too easy for anyone to simply raise their hand offering to volunteer, but many won't actually end up volunteering/doing the work.
How to figure out who among the people who sign up will actually commit to it?
We need to vet/interview people?
So... adding more work and burden to the community organizers?
> So... adding more work and burden to the community organizers?
💯 I think that's right. Creating a sustainable culture means investing time in making it more sustainable.
If we're maxed out in time for that community, then we should rework our priorities to make sustainability a higher priority. Or put another way, do less of other things.
Which is easier said than done because those other things tend to provide more dopamine. 😁
In my experience, the reason the community leaders still doing more things is because some volunteer tasks have strict due date (need to cut a release, need to finish CFP review, need to host a conference at specific date).
If the volunteers don't do things on time, the leaders ended up having to pick up the slack.
Mariatta 🤦🏻♀️ 
Tim Schilling