A system and method for managing the collaborative generation of content for an electronic document such as software applications, computer programs and the like. A source content item is created at a source development environment and accessed over a network by a plurality of users of a user community. Each of the plurality of users is located at a unique remote site. The source content item can be downloaded by each of the plurality of users and maintained at each remote site as a unique content presentation item. In one embodiment, the user can edit his or her content presentation item and upload the edits for incorporation into the source content item.