- DIN 3105, the first official standard published under a free license, defines “Open Hardware” and is now being used as a foundation for practical metadata and documentation tooling.  
- SKDB (“apt-get for hardware”) was revisited as a possible vehicle for open-hardware package management, but participants noted that earlier enthusiasm had waned due to poor user adoption.  
- A recurring diagnosis is that purely technical solutions (metadata schemas, search indexes, standard formats) fail when individual incentives to contribute are weak.  
- One proposed incentive mechanism is embedding open-hardware metadata entry into realistic simulation video games; players would add part descriptions to unlock in-game functionality.  
- The Soviet GOST standards and the patents.su database were highlighted as historical precedents where technical documentation and patents were freely available long before modern open-source licenses.