# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Feb 9, 2010)

The log was relatively quiet with minimal substantive discussion, but these points emerged:

• A link was shared about slime mold being used to design Tokyo's railway system, demonstrating biological systems' potential for solving complex infrastructure problems.

• Orgmode for Emacs was mentioned as a tool for notes, project planning, and authoring, highlighting interest in productivity systems among channel participants.

• A user shared a link to "ansistego.sf.net" containing files related to "critterdrug-use" with "elective substrate behaviours," possibly related to artificial life simulations.

• The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition was referenced with a link to a University of Texas Austin project repository (http://code.google.com/p/ut-austin-igvc/).

• A user requested access to an AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) paper titled "Human space exploration in 'Earth's neighborhood' - Strategy and architectural approach" by Joosten (2001), showing interest in space exploration strategies.

• Discussion of computing resources occurred, with one user mentioning their combined home computing power (~5GHz processing, ~3.3GB RAM, 1.278TB storage) and mentioning distcc for distributed compilation.