• DARPA’s iFAB program (BAA on fbo.gov) was eyed as a funding target; the group weighed whether to pursue Technical Area 2, which aims to create a universal, open-source process-representation language for digital manufacturing workflows.

• NIST’s Process Specification Language (PSL) was evaluated as a candidate formalism but criticized for poor documentation and potential over-abstraction reminiscent of 1980s symbolic-AI pitfalls; no satisfactory alternative universal language was identified.

• Participants stressed the need to systematically characterize real manufacturing equipment—aggregating datasheets or empirical measurements—to ground any process-representation effort in concrete data.

• A Git-based workflow for collaborative technical documentation was explored, comparing “djangit” (a Git↔wiki layer) and Django-GitCMS, with BeautifulSoup and lxml mentioned for HTML parsing and diff-friendly XML formatting.

• The Emotiv EPOC EEG headset was noted as hackable after Daeken’s reverse-engineering work; links to H+ Magazine coverage were shared for newcomers interested in low-cost BCI experimentation.

• New open-science media included videos from the Open Science Summit (fora.tv), a Nature news article on practical research trends, and a whimsical “scale-of-universe” interactive demo.

• London Hackspace was highlighted as a thriving venue for DIYbio London meet-ups, with a wiki page documenting their bio-hack workshop plans.

• Bitbucket was promoted as a promising code-hosting platform, and a Django-PAM integration project (bitbucket.org/wnielson/django-pam) was shared as an example of open-source authentication tooling.

• A YouTube link (youtu.be/yunCsfAcSeY) was posted without context, and SomaFM’s live San Francisco police-scanner stream (somafm.com/sfscanner.pls) was offered as a real-time audio feed during “riot fun” in the city.