Last year I was phone screened by a manager in a e-commerce shop from LA while I was living in Chicago. They seemed to be too fixated on my Github contributions. This was not a startup trying to accelerate- it's merely an agency that sees modest growth with a modest volume of clients.

Don't know what they though that my involvement in open-source projects would correlate well to e-commerce CMS work (I've worked in e-commerce dev well before opening a Github account). But it's probably some weird "tie breaker" decision given that I am not local to LA.