2023-02-15 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda/cf	jezdez
Travis Hathaway	TH	Anaconda	travishathaway
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight/cf	jaimergp
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
Wolf Vollprecht	WV	prefix.dev	wolfv
Matthew R Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
Eric Dill	EDD	Anaconda	ericdill
Marius van Niekerk	MvN	Voltrondata/cf	mariusvniekerk
Deepesha Burse	DB	N/A	deepeshaburse
Asmit Malakannawar	AM	N/A	Asmit2952

16 people total

Introductions

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Announcements

• (JL) New incubator project: installer
  • Result of a longer discussion at Anaconda about alignment between various internal teams and related community efforts, related to miniconda and other installers
  • Repo to contain tools and scripts to make it easy to maintain installers, derived from miniconda efforts, possibly miniforge (?)
  • Major props to the constructor team!
  • Team charter draft (PR)
  • DPC asked for clarification about constructor vs installer team
    • constructor is foundational software that multiple installers are built on.

New Agenda Items

• (JL) New subteam proposal: Technical Review Board
  • Proposal: https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/87
  • Vote ends on 2023-02-22, End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
  • Discussion about membership limits
  • Proposal has the TRB as a recommendation group
    • is there motivation to be on it, if there is no voting power?
    • TRB has added authority.
  • Is TRB redundant with the dev teams?
  • Could it be an expertise aggregator?
  • lots of discussion about work and responsibility
• (DPC) Not participating in the upcoming Outreachy cohort.
• (DPC) Any feedback on Slack/Gitter to Matrix migration?
  • (JRG): What's the closest equivalent to the General channel in Matrix?
  • JRG will create somethin / recommemnd something.
• (JL) conda booth at PyCon US?
  • DPC: Yes!
  • And will find list of interested people.
  • Application is due Feb 24.
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What is this meeting for?

Various parts of the conda community gather on a regular basis. This meeting brings together all of these sub-communities for a community wide call.