# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussions

• Participants shared techniques for extracting and archiving scientific videos from JOVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), with plans to preserve approximately 2000 videos totaling around 100GB, demonstrating the community's commitment to open science and knowledge preservation.

• The community discussed valuable scientific resources including Springer Protocols (containing ~5000 protocols in cell biology alone), highlighting ongoing efforts to liberate and preserve scientific knowledge that might otherwise remain behind paywalls.

• A participant mentioned working on a JavaScript plasmid visualizer and discussed algorithmic challenges in creating non-overlapping text labels for plasmid features, showing the technical development work happening within the biohacking community.

• The group critiqued mainstream media coverage of biohacking (specifically a BBC article series), noting it inaccurately suggested there was no thriving virtual community or how-to guides for biohackers in 2010, contrary to the actual history of the DIY biology movement.

• Participants discussed crowdsourced brain mapping efforts at MIT and shared their own previous attempts with C. elegans to create neural connection training data for machine learning applications.

• The community critically evaluated the uBiome crowdfunding campaign (which had raised nearly $200K), debating the project's feasibility and the reliability of its founders, demonstrating their analytical approach to commercial biohacking ventures.

• Members noted significant omissions in Wikipedia's coverage of bone marrow transplant cures for HIV and CCR5-related treatments, highlighting the gap between cutting-edge medical interventions and public knowledge repositories.