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Michael Johas Teener  //  Handy input to my infrequent notes ... more info on who I am at http://www.johasteener.com

Dec 29 / 3:21pm

Microfinance on a personal level

I've always loved how the microfinance system works, and was incredibly happy when Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize a few years ago ... and now there is a way to get directly involved with no significant effort, via an organization/web site called Kiva. One of the cool things they allow is the creation of "teams" ... some silly, some not, some commercial, some not ... so I created one: http://www.kiva.org/team/avb ... where the team names comes from the technology I've been spending the last five years of my life developing: Audio Video Bridging. (Sorry about the name ... not nearly as cool as "Firewire", but then there are a lot more people involved and things like names get watered down quite a bit ... Broadcom calls it "BroadSync HD" and there is also an industry group called "AVnu", which are better.)
Anyway, if you are involved with AVB in any way ... *or* if you just want to be on "my" team, consider joining. If you don't want to be on the team, my heart won't be broken, but please, please consider joining Kiva anyway.
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Michael D. Johas Teener - http://Michael.Johas.Teener.myopenID.com/ - PGP ID 0x3179D202
Make a small loan, make a huge difference -- http://www.kiva.org/team/avb

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