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One thing that's hard for us to gauge, and is important for a new community to get off the ground, is *level of interest*.  People might upvote a proposal out of interest ("I'd read that") or because they think it's a good idea in the abstract ("a site like that should exist") or because they want to actively participate ("yes! ready to dive in!").  So while there are no hard-and-fast rules about the makeup of the prospective community, we want to be able to see that there *is* one.

I've just gone through the list and added this answer to several of them:

> Right now we don't have a good way of identifying people who would help build a new community, so let's do this: if you are interested in helping to build this site, please leave a comment describing your level of interest (casual visitor, enthusiast, expert in this topic within the site's scope, something else?).  I'll edit them into the post later.

We'll need to do something better in the future, but for now, please weigh in (and ask people you're recruiting to weigh in) by leaving comments like those, so we aren't relying as much on team members' personal impressions and memories of who expressed what level of interest and so on.