- Denisa Kera’s DIYbio-in-Asia talk, “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Global Flows of Data, Kits and Protocols,” was circulated as a short link (http://j.mp/gRzkS1), highlighting early transnational DIY-bio discourse.  
- The Institute for the Future requested a visual overview of SKDB (the open-source hardware package manager); the placeholder graphic http://gnusha.org/skdb/doc/Skdb.png was offered, and the group critiqued Apple’s App Store imagery as a poor metaphor for explaining open-source “downloading.”  
- MAKE Magazine’s new “MAKE Space” blog and its NASA-related rules post (http://blog.makezine.com/space/rules) were shared, underscoring the maker community’s engagement with space-access policy.  
- Kanzure was invited to speak at an unspecified conference but declined, reflecting ongoing tension between open-source practitioners and formal conference circuits.  
- The channel’s steady traffic of netsplits, nick changes, and reconnections illustrates the globally distributed, IRC-centric coordination that characterized early transhumanist and biohacker collaboration.