# Summary of ##hplusroadmap IRC Log (June 3, 2015)

• Discussion about decentralized Wikipedia alternatives, with kanzure noting that Gregory Maxwell had written extensively about the technical challenges of fully decentralizing Wikipedia, explaining that "complete decentralization is hard to pull off" and traditional consensus systems require admission control.

• Conversation about digital preservation, including a project to OCR the XB-70 Valkyrie flight manual, with participants discussing the importance of preserving historical technical documents and the need to archive SourceForge's 430,000 projects for their "extreme historical utility."

• Technical discussion about prediction markets, with maaku and andytoshi evaluating the Truthcoin protocol, noting its consensus risk issues and implementation challenges, particularly regarding its block validation logic involving floating point PCA.

• Participants shared biohacking and citizen science resources, including Counter Culture Labs' Kickstarter campaign and kanzure providing extensive links to DIYbio transcripts, FAQs, and genetic modification projects.

• Discussion about biotech automation, with maaku inquiring about "transcriptic-like automation" and "makerbot-for-bio" technologies, with kanzure mentioning OpenTrons as an example of such technology.

• Austin-based participants discussed the need for maker spaces in central Austin, noting that the existing hackerspace (atxhs) is inconveniently located in north Austin, and considered starting their own maker meetup group.