- A 9 GB torrent of the entire 2009 PLoS corpus was posted to BioTorrents (http://www.biotorrents.net/details.php?id=17) as an experiment in open-access scientific distribution.  
- Foresight Institute announced the “Gada Prize” (http://www.foresight.org/gadaprize.php): a $20 k award for a 3-D printer that can reproduce ≥ 90 % of its own mass, run on ≤ 60 W, operate without an external computer, and complete a full self-copy in < 10 days; all IP must be released under a BSD-style license.  
- Participants debated whether the Gada requirements are physically attainable, noting that ejecting newly-printed parts and integrating PCB pick-and-place plus surface-mount assembly are still unsolved.  
- MakerBot clones are being sold on Craigslist by an individual named Eddie Voorhus; the Bay-Area RepRap meetup group is discussing free alternatives to Meetup.com for coordination.  
- A RepRap Darwin frame set was acquired and a custom tool-head for pick-and-place is being designed; gear-profile generation scripts are being debugged after discovering decade-old academic formulas appear incorrect.  
- Links circulated: open-design manufacturing equipment report (http://www.opendesign.org/CHIRP_Open_Design_Mfg_Equipment.pdf), Chris Anderson on bespoke manufacturing, Futurismic’s “garage ribofunk” DIY-bio series, and Cambodian bamboo-rail ingenuity.  
- DNS and hosting issues temporarily took down openmanufacturing.org; the server was relocated from Florida to Portland (69.163.39.14) and required local hosts-file fixes.