I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to co-organize a div3 round Codeforces Round 974 (Div. 3) last week, and whilst my memory is fresh, I'd like to share some thoughts which might be of interest to future setters and users.
The project started merely as an aspiration 6 months ago, when I contributed some problems that appeared in Codeforces Round 946 (Div. 3). It gave me the confidence to think about pulling a round together, and Robin Hood seemed like a flexible theme to weave some stories around. Over the next months, I collected a few ideas together and gathered enough courage to contact [user: