- Decide who your member will be and find a teamname that'll attract them
Do some research first. You might be a huge Star Trek fan, but you are unlikely to success creating Yet Another Trekkie Team. Think of a group of people, that would share common interest, and didn't have a team. Maybe you're already a member of some community, that could participate in BOINC projects? Perhaps people from the area you live in, your university, or your company. You might try founding a 'national' team if there isn't already one, or if existing teams don't seem to be very active. - Have your team registered in as many projects as possible
BOINC is about being able to crunch for several projects at the same time. Don't concentrate on just one of them. Sooner or later, your teammembers will want to participate in more projects, and if you don't have a team for them... they'll go elsewhere. - Build a website
This is important. Really. Website provides a means of communication with your teammembers. Even if it is just a simple page, where you post news about your team and important messages from the projects (like expected downtimes). Just be sure to update it. There's nothing worse than a webpage with news items several months old.
Detailed tips on creating an interesting (which pretty much means 'successful') website will be covered in other topics.
That's how BOINC@Poland's website used to look like before it evolved to another level (covered in next point) - Build a community website
Though you can start your team without it, and do pretty well, a community website will help your team to step into entirely diffirent dimension of development. That's no exagerration. BOINC@Poland used to be quite a succesful team with its static site. Moving to PHP-Nuke powered portal with a forum has resulted in big increase in member numbers. Not to mention entirely new level of cooperation between team members. Without it we wouldn't be able to do things we've done. Last but not least, you'll start to know your teammembers, and they will know you! - Care for your members
Once you have the ability to communicate with your members via your community website, do everything to help them with any problems they might have (concerning BOINC... you don't have to help save their marriages, although some empathy is appreciated). This approach gives you two benefits. First: the member you helped will be more likely to stay in your team. Second: other people visting your website will see, that this the place where they can look for help. - Compete and cooperate added Jul 30, 2007
You might have noticed, your team is not the only one
It is often useful, to directly compete on friendly terms with teams from same country, or from neighbouring town. You get a goal to achieve (crunch more than them if you're lower in ranks; don't get overtaken, if you're higher), and this will give your team members a huge motivation boost.
It is really important, that you develop friendly relationships with other teams (though it might not be easy, or even impossible at times... well... at least you tried).
This way, apart from competing your teams might also cooperate.
Share your news items. Let your team members help other team's members on their forum and vice versa. These are just examples of things you can do together (while still competing on cobblestone ground).
All for now... will add more, when I recall anything important
