• SKDB, an open-source hardware package manager, was re-architected to separate code, documentation, and bill-of-materials into doc/, inventory/, and sandbox/ directories, while refining a YAML schema that expresses build dependencies as logical expressions such as “(threading OR thread-forming OR thread-milling) AND (bar-stock OR wire)” for a screw package.

• A dependency-resolution engine (dep/dep.py) and graph-theory utilities (graphtheory.py) were prototyped; the team debated whether to adopt Boost Graph Library’s new Python bindings or lighter alternatives, citing the heavy dependency cost of Boost.

• Two seminal 2009 Cell Press papers—“iPS cells can support full-term development of tetraploid blastocyst-complemented embryos” and “Induction of pluripotency in adult unipotent germline stem cells”—were located and mirrored for open access.

• Subvocal recognition was proposed as a future BCI project, with participants speculating that a denser mouth-electrode array might be required and linking to the Wikipedia overview of the technique.

• Open CAD data repositories were harvested using Google search patterns, yielding AutoCAD Inventor parts (.ipt) and STEP files from JLab’s Hall C cryogenic lines, while the RepRap-utils GitHub repository was noted as a useful codebase for hardware automation.

• Constructed languages, particularly Lojban, were evaluated as knowledge-representation substrates for SKDB metadata, with Steven Pinker’s universal semantic primitives cited as a model for encoding causal relationships.

• Markov models and Hidden Markov Models were discussed for procedural generation: one participant sought to train a model on personal poetry style, while another explored Markov-based procedural audio synthesis using Pure Data, ChucK, and Csound.

• A campus-wide “research gateway and expert finder” called BibApp (http://bibapp.org/) was introduced, along with instructions for writing Zotero translators using XPath (http://niche.uwo.ca/member-projects/zotero-guide/chapter1.html) to automate metadata extraction from academic sources.

• The pyscholar project received commits adding microfluidics paper searches, BSXPath utilities, and sample Zotero files, while participants continued to request and share paywalled Elsevier bioinformatics papers to liberate scholarly literature for open research.