- Piny / Gitduino: an open-source “GitHub-for-hardware” stack (Django + Git hooks + OpenSCAD/POV-Ray) that auto-renders 2-D/3-D previews of every STL/SCAD commit; a contractor is being hired to finish the last week of MVC glue and image integration.  
- RepRap coordination tension: the Piny team and prusajr’s parallel “thingdoc” project are trying to avoid duplication; status updates will be posted on reprap-dev and the builders’ blog.  
- Distributed bug-tracking debate: participants compared Bugs Everywhere and Ditz against plain text files in Git, concluding that no mature, user-friendly, Git-native issue tracker yet exists.  
- Rendering architecture choices: extend the Django site, write a Rails gem for Gitorious, or adopt a pure-JS client hitting GitHub’s API; ReviewBoard and a non-blocking “renderbot” daemon are proposed to solve blocking-push and speed issues.  
- Community resources: MIT Nuclear Science & Engineering blog (mitnse.com) for calm Fukushima data; Portland RepRap forum and a “biobus” initiative as Pacific-Northwest collaboration hubs; Manchester’s MadLab DIYbio space profiled as an emerging amateur biology lab.  
- Longevity data point: life expectancy at age 50 for Russian Academy of Sciences members has risen for 60 years, mirroring UK Royal Society fellows and shielding them from Russia’s broader mortality swings.