- The School Factory (http://schoolfactory.org) was highlighted as an organization that supports and creates community environments like hackerspaces, makerspaces, and co-working spaces where diverse communities collaborate on building, making, and teaching.

- A suggestion was floated to rebrand local hackerspaces as “the shared workshop,” using the qualifier “shared” only when contextually relevant, as a way to make the concept more accessible.

- A MIT news article (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ready-to-learn-0819.html) on parahippocampal-cortex (PHC) activity and “readiness to learn” was shared, with the idea of using an inexpensive OpenEEG device to check PHC state before study sessions.

- A participant asked whether a curated, authoritative list exists that identifies the foremost researchers (“the end dude who knows everything”) for any given scientific topic, underscoring a desire for reliable expert directories in open-source science.

- The Metadatabase.org wiki (specifically User:Kanzure’s profile) was mentioned as a place where detailed information about open-science projects and contributors could be collaboratively maintained.