[draft] Looking for Education

Looking for Education is a non-profit collaborative project targeted at bringing into print the works of amateur photographers and writers (verse, short stories, anecdotes etc). The book(s) will be published by independent publishers that allow printing-on-sale to reduce initial overhead and inventory costs.

It is the broader aim of the project to donate surplus funds (beyond publication and shipping costs) to organisations committed to supporting education through scholarships and child-sponsoring. This will ensure that the looking for education community at large can be aware of the use of the funds.

Since the content - photographs and texts - submitted to the project would eventually result in a book, it is required that the contributors submit content to express their interpretation of a certain theme. This theme is expected to be finalised very early in the project and should reflect or explore the spirit of the project.

All content submitted, generated by the looking for education community will be released under the Creative Commons (by-nc) Licence and all rights will remain with the original creators where-ever possible. The content, format and design of the book will be finalised through community vetting though in certain aspects where the community is unable to reach a common consensus the sponsors could be asked to intervene.

Certain volunteers supporting the cause will be assigned the responsibility for overseeing the design and form of the book through community consensus. At any time volunteers can submit independent designs for the community to decide if the design is better.

Creative Commons Licence Attribution Non-commercial licence
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses

Lulu.com - Print-On-Demand Online Publisher
Print on demand (POD) is a method of producing books or other media (such as CDs and DVDs) one at a time. With print on demand, a printer produces hard copies of a book from a digital file. That way, the book is only printed when someone buys it. With Lulu, an author gives us a digital file of the book and we create a print-ready version of the file. When a customer buys that book from Lulu, our printer prints that copy (or copies) and ships it within days.

Primary Ideas/Ideals
Theme
Online Community
Independent Publishing
Provide exposure to Amateur Photography
Non-profit
Creative Commons Licensing