This is a great answer to all this "open up the papers" movement, and going forward a much better solution than those apps that cropped up for asking for a given research paper. If things remain open, that is. A github for papers sounds great, and an actual natural extension of the idea of github. Whereas github is pragmatic projects, authorea is the step before that.
Exactly! And at the same time we can exploit the power of the web, which unfolds into an easier approach to collaboration and a wider range of possibilities in terms of ways to show / plot / share the data and any other products of the scientific research. "Papers" haven't changed at all in the last few hundred years, but research and technology has dramatically. It's time to keep up.
