Community support and teamwork are major incentives for open source maintainers. However, gaining community support and contributors is a challenge, especially as a new maintainer. The reality is we have to market our projects. And there is a way to authentically market your project to technologists.

I wrote a blog post for Open Source Way all about it called "Attract contributors to your open source project with authenticity"

https://opensource.com/article/22/6/attract-contributors-open-source-project