by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 34)
Figure 1.
Logo of the OurBigBook Project
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Figure 2.
Everything is open source
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Video 1.
Intro to the OurBigBook Project
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240306094726if_/https://www.getmonero.org/press-kit/symbols/monero-symbol-on-white-1280.png
Figure 1.
Screenshot of Ciro Santilli's Monero wallet with 1000 Monero in it just after the donation
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Figure 2.
Still of the reaction video after finding out about the big donation around about midnight
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Figure 3.
It's a role given to me by the Internet people
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The ultimate goal: create an university:
  • without entry exams
  • without course requirements
  • where all material is free and available online: lecture notes, problem sheets, past exam papers
  • where you only pay to take certification exams for the courses that you care about
The technical goal:
Get university students to write what they learn. All university material should be amazing and free!
The how:
Create the ultimate personal knowledge base software with multi-user mind-melding features.

One mega article tree for each user

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Figure 1.
User home page on OurBigBook.com
. Live URL: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli
Figure 1.
Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade

Topics: the best version of an article by other users (the killer feature)

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Figure 1.
The topics feature allows you to find the best version of a subject written by other users user
. Live demo: derivative.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
Figure 1.
Web editor
. You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
Figure 1.
You can publish local lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook Web or as a static website
. For example, both of the following pages:
are generated from the exact same source code at: github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io.
Figure 2.
Visual Studio Code extension installation
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Figure 3.
Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg
Wikipedia:
  • notability guidelines too stringent
  • Encyclopedic content requirements too stringent, we need tutorials
  • contributors get no clear indication of their contribution
  • your changes can be reverted at any time losing you hours of work
Figure 1. Source.
Stack Exchange: can't write a book/have table of contents, only Q&A
Figure 2. Source.
Other personal knowledge bases (Obsidian, static site generators, etc.), blogs, PDFs:
  • no way to merge brains of multiple users
  • some of them are not focused on publishing, only personal/internal company usage

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