- SpaceCollective’s “Polytopia” project (http://spacecollective.org/projects/) was highlighted as a richer, more forward-thinking alternative to H+ Magazine.  
- The Open Science Summit 2010 was live-streamed on FORA.tv (http://fora.tv/live/open_science/open_science_summit_2010) with the Twitter hashtag #oss2010 and a real-time back-channel at http://oss2010.backchan.nl/conferences/view/30.  
- A full transcript of the summit was posted at http://gnusha.org/open-science-summit-2010-transcript.html.  
- kanzure prepared impromptu slides on open-source hardware for the summit and asked the channel for last-minute advice.  
- Utopiah shared pre-event notes at http://fabien.benetou.fr/Events/OpenScienceSummit2010 and linked the critical paper “Dark Side of Google” (http://ippolita.net/files/dark_side_of_google.pdf).  
- Discussion of Mendeley’s claimed 450 k-user base prompted skepticism about inflated metrics in academic social networks.  
- The new open-science collaboration platform “Colab” (MIT-licensed) was introduced via its GitHub repo: http://github.com/caseywstark/colab.  
- Concern was raised that BioTorrents.org’s use of BitTorrent may be blocked by institutional firewalls; anecdotal evidence suggested many universities allow torrent traffic.  
- kanzure found himself physically lost at NASA Ames Research Center (Building 19) and used Google Maps plus local shuttle advice to navigate.