# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (August 22, 2011)

- Utopiah shared School Factory (schoolfactory.org), an organization supporting community environments like hackerspaces, makerspaces, and co-working spaces where diverse communities collaborate on building, making, and teaching.

- A discussion about terminology occurred, with QuantumG suggesting referring to hackerspaces as "shared workshops" to make them more accessible to the general public.

- Utopiah referenced MIT research on the parahippocampal cortex (PHC) that could potentially be monitored with OpenEEG technology before learning sessions, linking to an MIT article about brain states that predict learning readiness.

- A question was raised about whether there exists a curated, legitimate list of foremost researchers by topic areas, suggesting an interest in identifying authoritative sources in transhumanist-related fields.

- The metadatabase.org wiki was mentioned as a potential knowledge organization tool, with a request for user profile completion, indicating ongoing efforts to catalog expertise in the community.