- The #hplusroadmap community is debating how to keep non-programmers from steering open-manufacturing efforts; participants suggest they focus on evangelism and fundraising instead of technical design.  
- BrickIt, a Python/Django inventory system for BioBricks, is highlighted as a promising tool that should be integrated with the group’s existing YAML-based inventory and PCR.xml data.  
- Berkeley’s BioCAD and Clotho projects are noted for their familiar-looking diagrams and potential overlap with the group’s synthetic-biology toolchain.  
- A 23 MB KEGG enzyme data dump is shared, along with a skeleton Perl parser, sparking discussion on the best way to parse tab-delimited, variable-length biological data.  
- The open-manufacturing mailing list is criticized for poor publicity, attracting mostly P2P/Global Swadeshi followers instead of practicing engineers, leading to scattered wiki pages and duplicated effort.  
- A local Austin meetup is discovered whose members list interests spanning robotics, biotech, cryonics, quantum computing, and dumpster diving, suggesting fertile ground for collaboration.  
- Participants lament the prevalence of low-quality “video of the screen” demos and the difficulty of producing proper screencasts on macOS/Linux.  
- The myExperiment.org platform and its RubyForge project are introduced as a way to share and remix scientific workflows, aligning with the group’s open-science goals.