2023-08-16 Conda Community Meeting

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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.

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra	JRG	Quansight	jaimergp
Jannis Leidel	JL	Anaconda	jezdez
Crystal Soja	CAS	Anaconda	csoja
Pavithra Eswaramoorthy	PE	Quansight	@pavithraes
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Daniel Holth	DH	Anaconda	dholth
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf

9 people in total

Introductions

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Announcements

• Prefix.dev launches pixi: https://prefix.dev/blog/launching_pixi
• A dashboard for community packaging metadata: https://conda-metadata-app.streamlit.app/
  • DH: Overlap with the datasette project at metayaml.fly.dev
  • JRG: It would be interesting to publish the internal sqlite database that conda index maintains 😬 Or the info/ bits of every package.

New Agenda Items

• (DPC) NumFocus Small Development Grant Proposal
  • Future project proposals will be vetted by the Conda - NumFOCUS 5
  • Conda Fundables
    • We could have a list of things the ecosystem needs that could become small dev grant proposals
    • Every few months (every SDG announcement) we can make a call for people who would be interested.
    • From the Python world: https://github.com/psf/fundable-packaging-improvements/blob/master/FUNDABLES.md
    • Bring this up with the Steering Council.
    • Should we have a project wide wishlist?
    • A fundables repo?
    • SDGs are only $10K.
    • Crystal: seems similar to internship projects.
    • Jannis: Not just about conda or about coding. Doc, infra, web,
    • John K: Worth considering how this fits into a longer term vision for the project (roadmap?)

TODO

• Anaconda should publish conda-index databases for conda-forge