- A coordinated effort was underway to mirror large corpora of pay-walled scientific literature; by the end of the day the group had posted 3–4 GB archives of journals such as Tetrahedron Letters, Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms, Nano Today, and Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews on bifx.org for open redistribution.  
- The team discussed technical hurdles: Apache refused to serve the 3.4 GB Tetrahedron Letters file with “Value too large for defined data type,” prompting fallback to direct server access and rsync to the private “cysteine” box.  
- To let outsiders tap the institute’s subscription without handing out SSH keys, they weighed running a Squid or Apache reverse-proxy, an SSH SOCKS tunnel, and even a “dirty” wiki-driven cron job that would wget user-submitted URLs and push the PDFs back out.  
- Concern was voiced that Elsevier and other publishers would quickly detect bulk crawling of entire journal archives, so the plan shifted to an informal, e-mail-request model framed as “building a private research library.”  
- A side conversation referenced “a GitHub of science” (marcio-vm blog post) and the need for post-publication prestige metrics to decouple scientific impact from high-impact journals.  
- Elsewhere, a 23andMe sale announced on 10 April prompted at least one participant to consider purchasing kits for family members.