# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Aug 17, 2009)

* Development updates to SKDB (open-source CAD/CAM system) were committed, with developers working on geometry transformations, part mating, and interface connections for 3D modeling.

* Discussion about cognitive enhancement drugs, with users mentioning difficulty obtaining modafinil and Adderall through legal medical channels, and considering underground market alternatives.

* Conversation about scientific protocols, with links shared to various blotting techniques including Southern blotting protocols from protocol-online.org.

* Discussion about NSF grant applications, noting the challenges for independent researchers not affiliated with universities to access the FastLane system for proposal submissions.

* Brief mention of concerns about environmental contamination from trash fires affecting vegetable gardens, with a user seeking scientific evidence to present to government authorities for enforcement of existing regulations.