What is without-a-net?

This repository holds the HTML source for Jessamyn West's 2011 book "Without a Net", now released under a Creative Commons Attribution license, meaning the book can be shared and reused as long as the author is credited. The README links to the book's page at unglue.it, a site associated with releasing books under open licenses. The content was converted from a PDF using a tool called Calibre, and the person maintaining the repository, credited as Eric Hellman, did some manual cleanup afterward. That cleanup included removing running headers left over from the PDF conversion and adding the new license information to the text. The README is explicit that this is unfinished work. It lists a todo section with several formatting tasks still pending: splitting the single file into individual chapter files, converting the existing chapter and section headings into proper HTML heading tags, adding styling for quotations, marking up and styling infoboxes, marking up ordered lists, and marking up and styling captioned figures. This is a small, minimal repository. It contains the raw converted book content in HTML form rather than a fully polished ebook, and there is no application code or build process described. It sits under the EbookFoundation organization on GitHub, the same group behind the well-known free-programming-books project, though the README does not explain the exact relationship between the two beyond shared ownership. Anyone visiting the repository today would find a snapshot of a conversion in progress rather than a finished, ready to read digital edition of the book.