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?

Finding volunteers is easy.
Finding volunteer leaders for the community (eg conference organizers, open source maintainers) is hard.
Finding successor to existing volunteer leader is also hard.

My random thoughts of the day.

It is admirable and amazing that the open source community have been relying on voluntary unpaid contributors in critical roles for this long.

I wonder how much longer this model will last.