GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain (opens in new tab)

Yes, absolutely. Apologies if that's not clear from the website. GITenberg started as an experimental fork of PG, but due to the work of Eric Hellman at the Free Ebook Foundation, much of the infrastructure such as metadata formats, CI/CD for building books, and DVCS backend are being ported upstream to the Project Gutenberg infrastructure.

"GITenberg is an exploration of how Project Gutenberg might work if all the Gutenberg texts were on Github, so that tools like version control, continuous integration, and pull-request workflow could be employed."

https://ebookfoundation.org/

It's a version controlled dump of Gutenberg.

More accurate to call it a fork.

Gitenberg was one of the alternate spellings of Gutenberg in the 1400s.

> It's hard to hold them responsible for picking a name that violated a policy that didn't yet exist.

fwiw, Gitenberg has been around at least since 2012.

They've been named like that for six years apparently so I'm not sure how that works for what you linked above. It is a valid point that hopefully doesn't cause problems.

I'm a big fan of standardebooks! They're doing fantastic work producing better ebooks from Project Gutenberg sources.

[Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/) has accomplished a lot in producing better ebooks of public domain texts.

Well, for my side project, https://www.bilinual.com I needed version controlling for changes that are made on a book (fixed typos, ...) and I found GITenberg project. There are several interesting tools developed during the project accessible here: https://github.com/gitenberg-dev

It's not so much about just adding git to books, but git to the transcriptions of books from printed materials. There are errors in the transcriptions, many books are lacking formatting, and many books pre-date Unicode and are in ascii. Tracking the book's source files in git makes it easier to collaborate on making these changes, or seeing what changes have been made.