Community Lending Project

The OpenSolaris Community Lending Project is the counterpart project to the OpenSolaris lending team on Kiva.org. Kiva.org is a very popular non-profit organization that lets users make small loans to businesses in the developing world via local microfinance initiatives. Kiva.org allows its users to form communities (lending groups) around common interests and to do their lending as part of their lending group.

This project is responsible for managing all issues around the OpenSolaris lending group on Kiva.org. OpenSolaris community members who are also users of Kiva.org can now lend on behalf of themselves as members of the OpenSolaris Community.
 While we understand that the benefit of this project to OpenSolaris will be very small, this project is more about doing something good by helping others.

The project also maintains a bookstore in the US via Amazon.com. Purchases in this bookstore will also benefit Kiva.

In order to follow discussions around this project you may sign up to the lending mailing list.