2021-06-23 Conda Community Meeting

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda	@chenghlee
Jaime Rodríguez-G.	JRG	Quansight	@jaimergp
John Lee	JL	Quansight	@leej3
Filipe Fernandes	FF	conda-forge	@ocefpaf
Sebastien Awwad	SA	Anaconda	@awwad

conda 4.10.2 roadmap items complete; should be tagged today and package released towards end-of-the-week
Putting together Packaging Con (2-day virtual conference; beginning of November)

Conda Community website mockups
- Confirmed Anaconda owns the conda.org domain
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/assets/issues/2#issuecomment-752871352 - at least get a GH page setup
Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting
- Anaconda has invited Intel, IBM

Robotics + conda packages
- RoboStack
- OSRF + Microsoft: ROS as conda packages for Windows
Plugins + conda packages
- FreeCAD, QGIS: exploring plug-in manager based on libmamba
- https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?style=3&f=42&t=58156&sid=d021658f134cfaf101896af54fb2c275
- https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/179
- Other tools may benefit; e.g.,
  - ChimeraX; currently handle deps with custom wheels: https://cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/
  - https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/
  - https://www.phenix-online.org/
Future of the conda community and these calls