# Summary of IRC Log from April 7, 2011

- A study was shared showing that learning new color names produces rapid increases in gray matter in the intact adult human cortex, with a link to the PNAS publication (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/03/28/1103217108).

- A discussion about the Open Hardware Summit occurred, with criticism of their polling system, referencing an article about issues with their voting process (http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/2011/03/31/thanks-for-ruining-a-good-thing-or-trying-to/).

- The Open Source Micro-Factory project was mentioned with a link to the Open Farm Tech blog (http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/03/open-source-micro-factory/), representing developments in open-source manufacturing.

- Concerns were raised about government data transparency, specifically questioning the $333,000 monthly cost of data.gov, with observations that usaspending.gov provides insufficient information about this expenditure.

- A brief technical discussion about "gitduino" touched on file formats for hardware version control, mentioning compatibility with .stl, .scad, .step, and .iges mesh definition formats.

- There was a brief comment about the need for better vocabulary to describe smells, following the discussion about color names and brain development.