I'm just saying short term is how you may attract talent. Your asking for super coders, but don't provide a market rate salary and you're also asking for them to have Foss work showing on their github.

So you want someone who worked for free in the past and also to pay them less than what they can make. I feel like those are difficult combinations. I don't contribute to Foss codebases myself, but I use them in my day job and home server, but none of that shows on github.