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Real contribution to a Node project requires more than passing familiarity with HTML, CSS or Javascript.

If you just want a site for primarily Node developers, that's fine, just admit it straight up

They're not asking for a "real" contribution, just a pull request. Two people have already gotten in by tweaking the 404 page:

https://github.com/larvalabs/pullup/commits/master/views/404...

The problem with that assumption is that it's very domain specific. While all good developers of web apps definitely know HTML and JS, there are a lot of fantastic programmers who have never touched it. The world of software is much, much bigger than just web apps.

It might run counter to your goals but wouldn't it accomplish more or less the same thing to require an approved pull request for any open source project? A similar amount of overhead would still be required, but you would wind up with a much more diverse population. You could even showcase the repos being worked on.