Sure, but it's not about how the code looks like, we just hope to find better synergies with such initiative. And yes, we are looking for a designer, are you interested ?
It reminds me of Tube, that aims to create an animation movie with content and data cc licensed. The idea is to make elements (modules) such as a characters, moves, light patterns, easily reusable. http://urchn.org/
Silvia Hartmann is exploring the idea of allowing the reader to follow the creation of a novel by writing on Google Docs. you can follow her on real time here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwxZlO1uVnFFKh_NWAlZ78oK...
With Github we can add to this the revision history plus branching, forking... I think we can go beyond the idea of a novel as a unique finished version written by a unique author. Novels could be as open source software : you don't have a finished product, but versions, and you don't have an author, but several contributors.
More details on the app: As nomads - freelancers, entrepreneurs, students and teleworkers - we share the places where we like to work: Cafés, bars, coworking spaces, librairies, airports, parks, and even our own homes.