Hi all, some of you might have heard about Kiva.org a hugely popular non-profit site that enables users to hand out micro-credits to small businesses in the developing world.
Kiva.org has a feature that allows its users to form Lending Teams around common interests such as businesses, clubs, common interests, colleges etc. (Click on the Community link at the top of the page). Lending teams already exist for business such as: Microsoft, Sun Microsystems (http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=3097), Intel, Accenture and many others. There is also a GNU/Linux and Free Software team (http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=1115). I thought it would be nice to start an OpenSolaris team but I do not know if this would require some sort of permission or if there is someone who takes care of these sorts of things in the OpenSolaris community. Infomation that is required is team name: OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris.com or OpenSolaris.org? I would favor OpenSolaris. What logo could I use? I really like the OpenSolaris.com style artwork. Lending Team website? opensolaris.com or opensolaris.org? I would favor OpenSolaris.com. While there is no huge benefit to the OpenSolaris project, it still gets the word out, while at the same time helping others. - Alex Disclaimer: Kiva.org is not for profit. I am in no way affiliated with Kiva.org besides being a user of the site. Creating a lending team does not require any monetary contribution to Kiva.org. I just believe this would be a nice idea.
