Mr. Pawlenty has been visiting early-voting states for months, recruiting contributors and courting activists who are influential in selecting the Republican nominee to challenge President Obama.
Allyson Campa, the vice president of marketing for Metacafe in Palo Alto, Calif., said the site, which shares advertising revenue with its producers, routinely recruits contributors from other video sites.
The recruited contributors by the release team may or may not be leaders (maintainers) of their corresponding projects, however, they represent different groups of developers.
Mitt Romney, seeing an opportunity to consolidate support from establishment constituencies like Wall Street and big business, scrambled to recruit the contributors who had their sights set on Mr. Christie, while Gov. Rick Perry of Texas tried to re-establish his role as a credible alternative.
Another strategy followed by the release team is to recruit key contributors from different teams into the release team.
To keep the site fresh, and keep us "on our toes," we continually recruit new contributors, as well as the continual submission of new questions.
Editors of the 184-year-old journal had publicly voiced concerns about damage to its reputation and faced difficulty recruiting academic contributors who objected to Reed's involvement in arms fairs.
Drew Massey, the chief executive of ManiaTV, a video site based in Denver on which users create channels with homemade clips and professionally produced content, acknowledged that the site has recruited YouTube contributors with pledges to feature them on ManiaTV's home page.
They are also recruiting Renegade contributors in different cities.
As well as employing professional journalists, Huffington Post takes contributions from unpaid bloggers, and is aiming to recruit 1 million contributors globally.
