- Digital micromirror DNA synthesis: participants are prototyping maskless, light-directed oligonucleotide microarrays using a digital micromirror device (DMD) and cite the 2002 paper “Maskless fabrication of light-directed oligonucleotide microarrays using a digital micromirror array” as the key technical reference.  
- Open-hardware ecosystem mapping: the channel surveyed repositories such as OHANDA, bildr, unptnt, harkopen, liquidware, thingiverse, and instructables, debating which platforms provide deep technical documentation versus art-centric showcases, and circulated a Google spreadsheet (http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgY8iyNeuVgwdEY3MFFtUmFueFdlMXNLOHI0R1dhUmc) to track contributors.  
- Metacurrency and alternative money systems: metacurrency was framed as a protocol layer for spawning user-defined currencies, contrasted with single-purpose alt-coins, with openmoney.info and the Flowplace game offered as working examples.  
- DIYbio logistics and incubator planning: Houston DIYbio members visited to align their nascent incubator with the proposed “gnusha co-op,” aiming to host open-hardware projects, share lab gear, and enable Kickstarter-style bulk purchasing; ikiwiki was proposed to embed each project’s documentation wiki inside its Git repo for full offline mirroring.  
- Legal and funding infrastructure: seriesseed.com was recommended for open seed-financing documents, opensciencefund.org was noted as a related funding vehicle, and a 113-page OSHBM prospectus (http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ad_WP5lmDYDzZHQ4MmZxMl8xM2ZrMmZjOWZ0) is under MBA review to refine market-size data.  
- Cost-shifting from conferences to labs: participants argued that the ~$100 k typically spent on a 100-person physical conference could instead equip ~20 new DIYbio labs and floated a $500 virtual-registration model to redirect funds toward shared equipment.