- Open Science Summit 2010 at UC Berkeley drew ~120 attendees and streamed live on fora.tv; real-time transcripts were archived on gnusha.org covering talks by Michael Nielsen (“Reinventing Discovery”), Jason Bobe, Mac Cowell, Raymond McCauley, Christine Peterson on biosecurity, FBI agent Ed You, and Len Sassaman.

- BIOFAB, a new open-source biological design facility led by Drew Endy, was highlighted as a flagship project for scalable synthetic biology.

- MyDaughtersGenome.com was introduced as a personal genomics transparency experiment, while a “sugar-daddy dating for science” micro-funding web-app concept was pitched to crowd-source small research grants.

- The community explicitly debated rejecting the precautionary principle in DIYbio, arguing that excessive regulation stifles innovation in open-source biology.

- A DMCA takedown filed by Vincent Gingery two days earlier forced UC Berkeley to confiscate the designfiles server, temporarily removing key open-hardware files and sparking discussion on legal vulnerabilities in open-source hardware.

- Participants criticized the summit for charging admission and failing to release promised video recordings (e.g., hplus-summit-2010), labeling it ironic for an “open” event and questioning its relevance to hard-core transhumanist or biohacker research agendas.