How we’re donating $53,000 in xkcd book profits

| Jul 19, 2010 | 9 comments

Back in May, our partners at Room to Read asked us to choose locations for our xkcd: volume 0 profit donations.

We asked you, the breadpig legion, to vote on the available locations for each of our three projects.

Unfortunately, one downside of democracy is that takes time to collect votes. During the week of voting, a major Room to Read donor sponsored the Local Language Publishing in Nepal for this year, which was the #1 vote-getter in our poll. Fortunately, the #2 vote-getter (India) was only 6 votes behind and will be the location for our Local Language Publishing project.

  • School Building (cost $20,000) in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
  • Constructed Reading Room (cost $19,000) in Nepal
  • Local Language Publishing (cost $15,000) in India

Breadpig legion, your participation doesn’t end here. Now we need dedications for the School Building in Sri Lanka and Constructed Reading Room in Nepal. Breadpig legion, please leave your suggestions in the comments.

Here’s the current Reading Room and School Building we’re replacing:

The Local Langauge Publishing project in India needed a dedication much sooner than the breadpig expected, so we adapted the xkcd school’s dedication:

“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” – Plato.

Publishing this book was a gift from the readers of XKCD, an internet comic strip. The world is full of exciting things to discover. We hope you find some of them.

And speaking of that xkcd school in Laos, I’ll be travelling their this fall to document our first Room to Read project in photos, videos, and interviews. Let us know if there’s anything in particular you’d like us to ask while we’re there.

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Before retiring as reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian founded Breadpig in late 2008 as an uncorporation for creating (and selling) geeky things with the purpose of making the world suck less. It's recently expanded to report on all the ways people worldwide are creating & hacking to improve their lives. He's also an angel investor and thinks hummus is awesome. Follow him on twitter, click here.