2024-07-03 Conda Community Meeting

Zoom link · What time is the meeting in my time zone

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
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
Dasha Gurova	DG	Anaconda	dashagurova
Marco Esters	ME	Anaconda	marcoesters
Marcel Bargull	MB	Bioconda/cf	mbargull
Wolf Vollprecht	WV	prefix.dev	wolfv

8 people in total

Introductions

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Announcements

• Vote on CEPs!
  • Sharded repodata 🚴 https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/75
  • Recipe serialization ✍️ https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/74
  • Jinja in the recipes 🥋 https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/71

New Agenda Items

• https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/86
• Chat platform - how is Matrix/Element going?
  • Past discussion:
    • https://github.com/conda/ceps/issues/36
  • General disatisfaction with Element
  • Could we try other clients
    • https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
  • Do we want to revisit chat platforms?
    • German army using Element. Maybe it gets better
    • Migration cost. Want to avoid repeating this in a few years if possible
    • Concern about Slack cost. Maybe other corp options (like Discord) would do this
    • Other options might include Zulip
• Twitter
  • Should we revisit using Twitter?
  • Interest in revisiting
  • Would like to figure out where users are (Twitter, Bluesky, Threads, etc.) and engage there
• Conda 24.7.0
  • https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/13995
  • When is this scheduled?
  • Maybe July 15?
  • Dasha to ask