Introduction

Goal The open textbooks and curriculum project focuses on developing a standard, and easy to use system to create and collaborate on opensource textbooks.

User Requirements User requirements are still loosly defined, but should acheive the following:

• Allow plugins to be generated to publish to various formats effortlessly (i.e. pdf, html, app).
• Personalization of textbooks
• A "pull" collaborative approach to content sections. If you are familiar with github, you'll know what we mean.
• Interactive and media rich content options. (This separates this project from epub and other formats of ebooks)
• Allow customers to change an index file to move chapters and sections of the book around.
• Support custom testing / homework / quizzing.
• Support the ability to see historical versions of the textbook.
• Enable an end user to utilize the software functionality without great technical knowledge.

Technical goals

• Develop a standard XML or JSON schema for textbook formatting.
• Utilize Git version control in peer to peer exchanges of textbook content.
• Develop a front end that is easy to use (possibly web server based).