Thanks everyone for all your support for the OpenSolaris Kiva Team. Here is my roughly-monthly-when-I get-round-to-it status report on the Project for you and the OGB.
To date, we: * Have 18 members of the team making micro-loans * Made 96 loans to entrepreneurs in difficult economic circumstances * Invested $2,500 in the project * Is touching lives in 22 countries[1] * Has made the most loans in Peru and Ghana The US Bookstore[2]: * Has been credited with just under $90 in commissions so far from OpenSolaris members choosing to buy through it * Was used for 32 purchases * Has sold 19 OpenSolaris books - and one Kindle Our Bookstore sponsor is considering what the best destinations for the $25 Kiva gift vouchers will be. They don't want to just give them away; they would rather they were used to recognise contribution to OpenSolaris. Suggestions for a smart scheme welcome (as long as it doesn't look like a competition!) Why not go invite a friend to join the team[3] right now? S. ------------------------------ [1] The countries where we have made loans include: Vietnam, Nigeria, Senegal, Peru, Ghana, Togo, Bolivia, Phillipines, Lebanon, Mexico, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Cambodia, Nepal, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Dominican Republic, Tajikistan [2] To give the Lending Project Bookstore credit for your Amazon purchases of any kind, use one of these links: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=opensolaris-20 http://astore.amazon.com/opensolaris-20 or just add ?tag=opensolaris-20 to the end of any Amazon.Com URL (or &tag=opensolaris-20 if there is already a ? in the URL). Would anyone like to write a Firefox bookmarklet that does this? [3] Go to this URL to invite friends: http://www.kiva.org/community/inviteFriends?team_id=5007&doneUrl=
