As a semi FAQ question attempt :
Where can you find people to work with you on a project? Particularly programmers. One thing that is obvious is that all programmers have a project (or twenty), and the chances of a programmer just hanging around looking for something to do is a lot less likely than if it were an artist needed on the team.
So, where do you post? Where do you search and follow people around until it looks like they are a viable team member? Is it really difficult to assemble a team that are not close friends or chat buddies? Are there sites with this sort of posting?
To clarify : I am referring to a team.
Example 1 : I am making gameEngineOfAwesomeness. I need help.
Example 2 : I am 70% complete on this game, and i need help.
Example 3 : I have an open source project idea, with a prototype. I need help.
It doesn't necessarily mean open source, just programmers who can work with me on something (and where to find them :))
Answer
1) Press the flesh at places like Penguicon or local users group meetings and have your elevator pitch down and some color fliers with calls to action. If you want to enlist the help of others, you will need to market yourself and your idea. Explain 'why you' and 'why this' to a group of people who don't know you and surely have 15 of their own ideas that they haven't followed through on themselves. If you have a prototype, set up several machines in a con-suite or talk to the users group about being a speaker and present what you have to as large an audience as you can.
2) Make it easy to help you by setting up all of the infrastructure yourself before you talk to anyone. Get a well populated WIKI in place, source control system, storyboards (even if the art stinks), etc. and ideas on how 'this game' is going to change the world.
3) Be prepared to do more work than any two or three other team members, because you will need to be cheerleader, project manager, and contributor all.
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