- A participant proposed launching an earthquake-prediction challenge on Kaggle and asked for free, multi-year, multi-station seismic datasets; USGS (earthquake.usgs.gov) and IRIS (iris.edu) were suggested as sources, with the caveat that “seismic data isn’t all about quakes.”  
- The same participant received a blunt dismissal from geophysicist Wayne Pennington, who emphasized that statistically validated earthquake prediction has never been demonstrated and warned against “self-proclaimed successful predictions.”  
- Discussion of organizational drama: Tyler Emerson and Alicia Isaac were linked to an alleged scam that left Emerson under house arrest; details were said to be absent from public web sources.  
- Humanity+ was criticized for dropping the “genebid” idea and for ongoing scope creep after an invoice had already been submitted.  
- A Methuselah Foundation call for a volunteer Linux/PHP/MySQL developer was circulated (fightaging.org post and mfoundation.org page).  
- Ponoko’s David ten Have met with kanzure to explore possible collaboration around SKDB (open-source hardware package system).  
- Robert Bradbury’s death was announced, prompting reflection on the limited scale of open-source funding; FSF’s ~$1 M annual revenue was contrasted with the Red Cross’s ~$1.3 B, and participants asked whether any charities specifically bankroll open-source development beyond Google Summer of Code.  
- kanzure floated reviving or improving “hplusvideo,” an HTML5-oriented educational video site, to make smartphone idle time more productive.