When talking about contributing to open-source projects, it’s crucial to understand from a maintainer point of view what factors are stopping new contributors from contributing to your project. Whether your codebase is very overwhelming to the contributors for the first time or it lacks good first issues and enough responsive response to their problems. In this talk, I will explain how I built a campaign at Amplication that scaled the contributors from 30 to 200 in just one year and how it solved every problem I mentioned above.

- Understanding the perspective of new contributors

- Identifying factors that hinder new contributors from participating in open-source projects

- Overwhelming codebase as a barrier for first-time contributors

- Insufficient availability of beginner-friendly tasks (good first issues)

- Lack of responsive support for addressing contributors' issues

- Describing a successful campaign at Amplication

- Achieving significant contributor growth (from 30 to 200) within one year

- Addressing and resolving the aforementioned obstacles through the campaign