- The FSF launched a new “Respects Your Freedom” hardware-certification program aimed at promoting open-source-friendly devices.  
- Participants explored a Git-style micro-commit system for SolidWorks that would auto-save every change, embed PNG preview thumbnails, and optionally run headless SolidWorks on EC2 to generate canonical isometric images for distributed CAD collaboration.  
- lolcad, a minimal Python library for reading, writing, and modifying NURBS geometry and STEP files, was proposed as a lightweight alternative to Open CASCADE or HeeksCAD, with plans to keep it a pure library consumed by multiple front-ends (wxWidgets GUI, OpenGL viewer, CLI).  
- The group debated how to extract zlib-compressed Parasolid data from native .sldprt/.sldasm files to enable open-source tooling and discussed using libgsf on Linux to harvest embedded PNG thumbnails for better file browsing and change visualization.  
- Practical roles for Humanity+ (formerly WTA) were brainstormed: acting as a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor for open-source transhumanist projects, a grant-writing vehicle, or a coordinator linking medical-device researchers with transhumanist outreach.  
- Near-term robotics milestones were highlighted, including general-purpose cooking robots that download and execute recipes (with links to Japanese pancake-flipping and Chinese wok robots) and the longer-term goal of autonomous construction robots moving beyond specialized factory settings to build stadiums or Burning Man installations.