This is attractive but the chat doesn't look very lively. How successful and active is Code Shelter ?
The way I wanted to solve it is to have as many projects as possible in the Shelter, so that when you came across a project that was abandoned that you were interested in, you could simply become a maintainer and take it over. Unfortunately, projects don't have much of an incentive to be added to CS when the maintainers aren't there, so the solution hasn't worked that well.