# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Log

- The Open Hardware Summit was documented with slides, photos, and videos (http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/documentation-and-press/), highlighting growing momentum in the open source hardware movement.

- Kanzure discussed development challenges of "lolcad" CAD software, particularly implementation of sketch-based interfaces using Cairo and coordinate systems for defining sketch entity boundaries.

- Participants explored embryogenesis simulation using evolutionary algorithms to model development in mammals, with references to available open source mouse development databases.

- A debate emerged around personal genomics regulation, with criticism of government restrictions on direct-to-consumer genome sequencing despite individual demands for access to personal genomic information.

- MIT's "Soylent" project was discussed - a Microsoft Word plugin integrating Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to assist with writing tasks, with suggestions for repurposing this human-in-the-loop technology.

- Focus Fusion progress was shared (http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/new_video_making_fusion_happen_-_repeatably/), demonstrating repeatable fusion reactions as a development in alternative energy research.

- QuantumG contributed to space technology discussions with a blog post about affordable deep space exploration approaches (http://quantumg.blogspot.com/2010/10/affordable-deep-space-exploration.html).