Github has always been a great place to find engineers to work for your project. I'm not sure about finding co-founders. One of the benefits of meeting co-foun

Github has always been a great place to find engineers to work for your project. I'm not sure about finding co-founders. One of the benefits of meeting co-founders in the community/startup events/etc is that they are already putting themselves out there as entrepreneurial and co-founder material. They've already jumped through many hoops in their mind and (hopefully) have their domestic and personal situation suited to it. I would hate to have this happen: I discover an amazing developer who is working on an open source project in my problem space, but has a full time job. I convince him to work on the startup with me and he quits his job. It later turns out he's not really cut out for startup life and he hadn't really considered it before until I tempted him with an offer. He went blindly into it and now it's all f'd up. Now we have to part ways and his old job has already replaced him so he's screwed.