• The RepRap project is wrestling with a 1 GB monolithic Git repository whose 2 GB history is impractical for contributors in bandwidth-limited regions; proposals include splitting it into Git submodules for electronics, Huxley, Mendel, firmware, host software, and Darwin, or offering nightly .zip/.tgz snapshots of subdirectories via cron job on diyhpl.us.

• Participants shared direct download links for legacy SolidWorks COSMOS/M and COSMOSMotion 2005 installers, plus archived DELMIA/Dymola robotics images, aiming to preserve discontinued FEA and motion-simulation tools for open hardware development.

• MIT’s self-assembling solar-cell work—64 000-component photovoltaic devices that self-assemble in three minutes and self-repair—was highlighted via a January 2010 BBC article, underscoring interest in self-repairing energy systems for distributed fabrication.

• The community circulated hard-to-find CAD resources: tracepartsonline.net and molds.cn for mechanical models, Open CASCADE Chinese forum and bug tracker for open-source 3-D kernels, and the BRL-CAD “HAVOC” Soviet helicopter model as an example of open aerospace geometry archiving.

• A new biopunk.org post titled “Garage Biology and Politics” frames DIY biology within regulatory and political contexts, while Foresight Institute’s 2007 revenue of $368 k and Kartik Gada’s 2010 Foresight talk on Vimeo were noted as reference points for institutional longevity in transhumanist circles.