K, the system is ready for its alpha release.

Fully operation installation, replete with lavish instructions on its deployment and use:
https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/topic-based/docshack-alpha-1.zip

Just unzip, write, and profit!

Source codes:
https://github.com/jwulf/fudcon-docs-hack

Actually, there have been a lot of changes since the FUDCon. I made it work with multiple books and embedded the book inside the app server, changed the css, etc. 

It hasn't had a lot of testing, but I want to get it out as soon as possible, and that's now.

Give it a whirl and let me know what you run into, any questions or suggestions that you have. There is a bugzilla link in the server interfacee so that you can look at the currently open bugs and feature requests, and also can open new bugs and RFEs.

Currently you can export any book that you create in the server to a standard publican book and check it into svn / git / some other system.

Things I am planning to implement in the near futures:

1. Live preview of the rendered docbook while you edit.
2. The ability to export topics and books so that they can be transported between systems.
3. Possibly the ability to build using topics from multiple systems.

MOLON LABE!