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Re:Open source projects should run office hours by lhorie on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:07AM (#26356981)
The submission title appears to be editorialized. Original title is "Open source projects: consider running office hours"

And the article talks about the purpose being for gathering feedback (think UX sessions), not for gratuitous support. Meaning that goal is for the project maintainer to draw benefits from others donating their time.

Personally I think this a really clever idea

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Re:Open source projects should run office hours by armoredkitten on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:52AM (#26357419)
Actually, the submission title is referencing the original title of the article, but the author edited it and left a note at the bottom:

>Update 5th March 2021: The original headline of this piece was “Open source projects should run office hours”. This was being misinterpreted as yet another demand for free labor from open source maintainers, so I changed it to “Open source projects: consider running office hours”—less pithy, but it better reflects my actual message here.

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