# Summary of ##hplusroadmap IRC Log (Jan 15, 2012)

* Discussion about biological immortality approaches, with one user seeking information on longevity strategies while another pointed to a collection of research papers at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/

* Conversation about open-source alternatives to expensive stenography tools, specifically mentioning Plover, which enables typing at 255 WPM without the typical $4000 cost barrier for professional stenography equipment.

* NASA released OpenVSP under the NASA Open Source Agreement, allowing users to construct aircraft models from simple parameters like wing span and fuselage length, though some users expressed skepticism about the implementation.

* Resource sharing discussion included libgenesis as a solution for ebook sharing when facing deletion issues on commercial file-sharing platforms.

* A tool called Zen-coding was shared (http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/), which is an editor plugin for high-speed HTML coding.