A few days ago Robert Nagy (the OpenOffice.org port maintainer) added his request for a build box to www.openbsd.org/want.html.
OpenOffice.org 3 is a huge port to build and maintain, and a single build takes over 12 hours on the machine that Robert currently has and cannot afford to run anymore due to electricity costs. A machine with a modern quad-core CPU would cut the build time in half or less, thus making Robert's work of bringing you a prebuilt and working OpenOffice.org package much simpler. He also got an offer for free hosting of the build machine, but the caveat is that it has to be in a 1U rack mount form. By helping Robert get a new rackmount server both issues (the build time and the cost of running) will be much improved, which will allow him to put more effort in maintaining the port. An entry-level rack server may look expensive, but considering the price of commercial office suites, such a machine does not cost more than a few commercial licences. If you can donate towards the purchase of this build machine, please contact rob...@openbsd.org or make a Paypal donation directly to his e-mail. Since the initial call for donations on Undeadly ( http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090221214700&mode=expanded&; count=2 ), almost half of the required funds have already been received. So please step forward and help the developer get the tools for his work! Thank you, Mitja
