- DARPA will host an open IRC chat (#darpa-avm) on Monday, 28 March 2011, 11 am EST to gather community feedback on the draft BAA for the “Component, Context, and Manufacturing Model Library 1” (C2M2L-1) program led by Paul Eremenko.  
- ISO has released new corrected editions of STEP standards ISO 10303-203 ed2 and ISO 10303-210 ed2 (dated 4 March 2011), relevant for open-source CAD and manufacturing interoperability.  
- Brian Degger is developing “Lab in a Box,” a portable biology-laboratory kit aimed at DIYbio and distributed research (http://labinabox.co.uk/).  
- ThingDoc, an automatic-documentation tool for open-hardware projects, was discussed; links include the RepRap blog post, GitHub repo (prusajr/ThingDoc), and a sample PDF (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8967423/doc.pdf).  
- Google’s indexing of the diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers/ directory is triggering automated “relevant paper” alerts, prompting temporary relocation of the files and debate on the limits of robots.txt.