- Django was held up as a high-quality open-source project, but participants argued that its conference-centric culture and paid tutorials erect barriers for contributors who cannot travel or afford training.  
- A neuroscience summer school drew criticism for its low number of female speakers, sparking debate on how to improve gender representation without resorting to tokenism or diluting scientific standards.  
- CaptHindsight introduced the open-source Juicer pipeline (aidenlab.org/juicer) and an accompanying Cell Systems paper for 3-D genome analysis and chromatin-interaction mapping.  
- GSK and Alphabet’s Verily announced a $715 million joint venture to develop “bioelectronic medicines”—implantable devices that modulate neural circuits to treat disease.  
- The Hackaday.io “Linear CCD Module” project (https://hackaday.io/project/9829-linear-ccd-module) was highlighted as an open-hardware component for building low-cost spectrometers.  
- Waffle.io was showcased as a lightweight, web-based Kanban layer over GitHub issues, with live boards for the CryptoMiniSat SAT solver and the NanoEngineer molecular-design project.  
- kanzure circulated a newly-published transcript of a July 2016 meeting between Bitcoin developers/miners and Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh (http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/2016-july-bitcoin-developers-miners-meeting/dan-boneh/), archived in the diyhpluswiki repository.