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"This book has an unusual development design. The content is open-sourced, meaning anyone can be an author. Authors submit content or revisions using the GitHub interface."

What a wonderful thing -- this book looks fantastic, but the approach to making it really takes the cake. I really hope interactive notebooks (iPython based or otherwise) and multiple authors collaborating on Github will become widespread.

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There is both wikibooks and wiki university - last time (several years ago) I looked on wikibooks there were actually very good physiology and biology textbooks that had been open sourced. Not sure if development has tapered but it seemed a pretty robust community for a while

It sounds like a perfect fit for the kind of fields that have grown so vast you need an expert for every sub-section. Like physiology and biology, basically.

The "Modern Perl" book did this a few years ago as well. The crowd sourced nature of it helps keep the content up to date and error free.

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