• The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) was nominated for Make Magazine’s “Tag Your Green” campaign, with the channel urging votes to secure a Maker Faire showcase for open-source industrial hardware.  
• Eric Hunting’s open-source modular housing system, Utilihab, was introduced via its public design catalog on the Utilihab WikiWiki, offering downloadable plans for rapid, low-cost construction.  
• A draft WIPO treaty aimed at protecting traditional biological resources was highlighted as a policy development that could directly affect open-source bioengineering and access to genetic materials.  
• The community circulated open-science resources including the paper “Science, Open Communication and Sustainable Development,” the nascent Open Science Bay Area meetup, and critiques of the incomplete “Citizen Scientist Utility Belt” mailing list.  
• A Humanity+ staffer’s unvetted funding pitch to Ray Kurzweil for a DNA synthesizer sparked debate over whether transhumanist money should prioritize community-reviewed projects versus top-down initiatives.  
• Advances in ultra-high-resolution imaging were showcased: Halcyon Molecular’s annular dark-field electron microscopy for atom-level identification and the Max Planck Institute’s STED fluorescence microscopy.  
• EEG-based brain-computer interfaces for artistic control were documented on the TMPLab wiki, alongside mathematical lathe techniques for hobbyist fabrication.  
• Humanity+ Caltech conference videos were mirrored locally; participants weighed open video formats (OGV vs MP4) for long-term preservation before public YouTube uploads.  
• Craig Venter’s “Space Manufacturing 14” talk—covering engineered bacterial symbionts for closed-loop life-support in space—was streamed and linked as a key resource for synthetic-biology-in-space research.  
• Rumors of a since-removed “Human 2.0” X-Prize category prompted discussion on whether open transhumanist R&D can withstand anticipated public backlash and regulatory scrutiny.