Ask HN: Review My Idea – Crowdsourced University Books

Inspired by this previous post[0], I wanted to share an idea I have, to know what do you think about it. 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. 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). 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". 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. Do you think this could work? Any suggestions? Do you know of any similar project? Thanks in advance [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286848