# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (July 26, 2011)

• Eri Gentry was interviewed about BioCurious and OSCON 2011, though some participants expressed skepticism about the substance behind her publicity in the biohacking space.

• Discussion of data storage challenges for open science projects, including backup strategies and RAID expansion needs for large datasets.

• Halcyon Molecular was discussed, with participants noting the company's physics-heavy approach to DNA sequencing and their "sequence everything → live forever" strategy, which some felt needed more biological grounding.

• Participants shared resources on intellectual property criticism, including a paper arguing that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and may be harmful to growth and prosperity.

• Technical resources were shared, including Twilio's JavaScript API for telephony integration, Gmail as a database for research, and Thrust (a parallel algorithms library).

• A document on In Situ Resource Utilization for Lunar Colonization was shared, relating to space settlement technologies.

• Technical discussion about cron job configuration issues, particularly around running scripts with proper permissions and user contexts.