Inspired by this previous post[0], I wanted to share an idea I have, to know what do you think about it.<p>The idea basically is to make crowd-sourced textbooks for my university (eventually, anyone can use them, but every book is going to be for a specific course). In the long run, I would like the books to become some kind of complete resource for self-study of every course.<p>At first I don't want to do this as a business, but as something I think would be very useful for students and teachers (although making some money to pay authors to write or improve parts or entire books would be great).<p>As I don't have really a lot of time to think about how to implement this, it ocurred to me that I could get to a MVP-like level using github. The github collaborative aspect for making the books, github pages for hosting, and maybe even github issues as a kind of "forum".<p>I want the books to be free licensed (probably CC, but I don't really know at this point), and also being in github, i like the idea that anyone can fork it and make his own version.<p>Do you think this could work? Any suggestions? Do you know of any similar project?<p>Thanks in advance<p>[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286848