Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

[FlyingBlackbird]

Due to lack of time I am intending to donate my Blackbird motherboard incl. the CPU (8 core) + cooling tower to an open source project or committed open source developer.

If

• you are interested and you think it will help you (without reselling it ;-) or
• want to suggest/nominate an open source project or developer

please answer to this post.

Important restriction: I can ship it only within the EU (European Union) since I do not want to go through all the trouble of customs declaration again...

[FlyingBlackbird]

And to start with first proposals myself:

- Void Linux (https://voidlinux.org/)
- Chimera Linux (https://chimera-linux.org/): A new distribution

The Power 9 parts of both distros were/are heavily backed by q66 (known from this forum)...

[pocock]

You could send it to me.  Some of the things I do with GPU testing are not possible on my primary workstation because I don't want to crash my desktop.

[MPC7500]

I know someone in Hungary who would certainly be very happy about it. Unfortunately he doesn't have the money to ever buy a Blackbird. He is a developer and connected to Open Source of course.

If he would be suitable for you, send me a PN.

[ClassicHasClass]

I just want to say I think this is a great cause and very generous. 

[vikings.thum]

I can host this machine in our data center in Germany if it is used for development of libre software on PPC.

[MPC7500]

That's a very good idea, too.

[MPC7500]

Another possibility is kernel.cafe. Don't know if it still exists. I will see.
https://twitter.com/thomrstrom/status/1361454356533415937

Edit: Here is already a thread about it
https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,263.msg1979.html

[FlyingBlackbird]

I can host this machine in our data center in Germany if it is used for development of libre software on PPC.

I love the idea of hosting it in the EU since currently I have found only ppc64(le/el) machines outside of the EU (mainly USA and Brazil), eg.

https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi

How would the process for getting access to the hosted machine look like (and how much transparency could about the real machine usage could you provide)?

And who is paying the admin and power bills then?

[MPC7500]

The Debian folks are probably the least likely group of people to need any additional POWER hardware. Since they are already sufficiently supplied with POWER hardware.

[MPC7500]

Haiku would be a good candidate
https://www.haiku-os.org

Or NetBSD.

[DKnoto]

The Haiku community now has little interest in PPC architecture

Maybe ravynOS, it's an interesting project.

[MPC7500]

Haiku only because of lack of hardware. They don't even have Macintosh PowerPCs.

But still there are some activities:

Kallisti5 fixed some minor problems with the PowerPC port to keep it building and simplify it a bit. Kallisti5 and waddlesplash also continued cleaning up the RISC-V sources and fixing various minor issues there.

I would ask Kallisti5 and waddlesplash if they're interested in hardware.
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-powerpc-compatibility/1869/59

Edit: At least these two developers located in the US ...
Edit 2: Discussion on Twitter.

[MPC7500]

Another possibility helloSystem. probonopd is located in Germany ;-)
https://github.com/helloSystem/hello

[DKnoto]

I spoke to Kallisti5 some time ago about PPC, but he was not interested and basically dissuaded me. I am a Haiku user and was very keen on the system. You'll even find me on the authors list, I've thrown in a few minor tweaks to the system. I even tried to compile Haiku on a PPC but the task overwhelmed me, I can't devote that much time to it.

I think helloSystem is dead compared to ravynOS.