# Project name OpenSolaris Lending Project
# A short synopsis of the project's purpose. Kiva.org is non-profit organization that lets users lend to businesses in the developing world. Kiva.org allows its users to form communities (lending groups) around common interests and to do their lending as part of their lending group. The "OpenSolaris Lending Project" would be the counterpart within the OpenSolaris community to an OpenSolaris lending group on Kiva.org. Project members would be lending on behalf of themselves as members of the OpenSolaris Community. # A list of community groups sponsoring the project. None # A list of participants (with their OpenSolaris user IDs) on the initial project team, including a single individual who will serve as the leader or preferred point of contact. algnod (Alexander Gnodtke) I would be the preferred point of contact. Others on advocacy-discuss have indicated their interest # A one paragraph description of the project for an audience of participants who may not be familiar with the area in which work is proposed. This should contain a brief description of the problem(s) the project is expected to solve, and of the manner in which it will do so. In light of possible trademark issues surrounding the OpenSolaris brand, I decided that it would not be wise to form a lending group named OpenSolaris Lending Group or similar on a third party website (kiva.org) without the prior consent of the OpenSolaris community. This project is the entity responsible for managing all issues around the OpenSolaris Lending Group on kiva.org. OpenSolaris community members who are also users of kiva.org may then lend as part of an OpenSolaris lending group. The benefit, albeit very small, to OpenSolaris will be visibility on a very popular site where other lending groups like Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, GNU/Linux and others already exist. The benefit to everyone will be, possibly some new kiva.org members and some additional loans to help others lift themselves from poverty. # A listing of related, ongoing, or proposed projects, including information about any dependencies on or by this project and any duplication of purpose or overlap with other work. None that I am aware of. # Any additional information which may be of interest to prospective project team members and/or consumers of the project's output. This project is simply about doing something good by helping others and being able to do it in a community you care about.
