# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussion (September 23, 2012)

• MakerBot's relationship with open source was discussed, with participants sharing an article from Make Magazine highlighting the company's inconsistent messaging about their open source commitments and future direction.

• DARPA demonstrated interest in community innovation through the Space Gambit program, showing government engagement with hackerspaces and DIY technology development.

• 23andMe opened its API to developers, representing a significant step in making personal genetic data accessible for third-party application development.

• Participants shared technical resources including a C++/C to assembly visualization tool and a compressed version of "Nanosystems," facilitating easier access to important reference materials.

• The group discussed molecular modeling in CAD software, reflecting ongoing interest in nanoscale engineering design tools like NE1.

• Technology forecasting methodologies were debated, including visualization approaches (spreadsheets vs. tree/graph representations) and the challenges of predicting commercial versus consumer availability dates.

• Technical limitations of Android's Dalvik Java VM were noted, specifically that its debugger silently fails after 1000 local variables by wrapping around to zero.