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# 2021-09-01 Conda Community Meeting
* [Meeting link](https://meet.google.com/owq-kbca-abk)
* [What time is the meeting in my time zone](https://arewemeetingyet.com/Chicago/2021-09-01/12:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)
* [Last Meeting's Agenda and Minutes](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/tree/master/meetings)
## Attendees
| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| ------------------ | -------- | ------------- | --------------- |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda | chenghlee |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda | jezdez |
| Jaime RodrÃguez-G. | JRG | Quansight | jaimergp |
| | | | |
| Sebastien Awwad | SA | Anaconda | awwad |
| | | | |
| Matthew R Becker | MRB | conda-forge | beckermr |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | mbargull |
### Introductions
### Announcements
* conda-forge/mamba project has been funded by CZI; top items:
* improve solver error/debug messages
* mirror selection
* use [zchunk](https://github.com/zchunk/zchunk) to download only the latest chunks of repodata.json
* used by https://github.com/rpm-software-management/librepo
* help conda-forge with package signatures
* PackagingCon CFP extended till Friday! https://pretalx.com/packagingcon-2021/cfp
### Standing Items
* Conda Community website mockups
* Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting
### New Agenda Items
* [FF/CHL] Switching to Zoom (room provided NumFOCUS for conda-forge)
* Consensus: we should switch to Zoom
* Will seek approval at next week's conda-forge core meeting
* [CHL] Support for custom HTTP headers in conda
* https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/10257
* Driving use case is to support more standard HTTP auth mechanisms (basic, OAUTH2, etc.); simplify handling providers
* (SA) current token mechanism could leak into logs (since they're part of the URLs)
* (FP) could expand this to do more generic, pluggable mechanisms for auth
* [JL] Opened ticket about who wants to become emeritus-core
* https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/31
* (MRB) made a list and a message: https://hackmd.io/RUt1OEyESBmUf9A7B7s_NQ
* [JL] New "infra" repo in Conda org for community infrastructure related issues
* https://github.com/conda/infra
* synced for some labels automatically to Anaconda Jira
* use of discussion preferred before opening issues: https://github.com/conda/infra/discussions
### Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting
### Active Votes
### Subteam Updates
### Open PRs
## Discussion
## Action items
* (CHL) will draft a CEP for custom header support
## Last meeting points