OSS

how to attract OSS contributors

• Do some marketing for your OSS
• label beginner issues appropriately (eg. “good first bug”, “easy”, “low hanging fruit”)
• Describe the benefits of contributing
• Set systems in place to enforce your policies (eg. editorconfig, aslant, etc)
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• Add link to Github flow tutorials

README.md

• with FAQs
• high-level overview of design & architecture
• guide to the folder structure

Code of conduct

• provide protection to new contributors
• how to report violations

Templates for pull requests and issues

Rewards

• swag
• blogpost mention
• social media mention
• badges for their linkedIn