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# 2023-05-10 Conda Community Meeting

[Zoom link](https://zoom.us/j/9138593505) · [What time is the meeting in my time zone](https://dateful.com/convert/utc?t=5pm)

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 |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ---------------|------------------|
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/conda | jezdez |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/cf | jakirkham |
| Jesse Wiles | JW | Anaconda | jessewiles |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp |
| Katherine Abrikian | KCA | Anaconda | kalawac |
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9 people in total

## Introductions

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## Announcements

- [x] (JL) Vote running to graduate conda-dot-org project from conda-incubator to conda main GitHub organization: https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/issues/110
- [x] (BH) May releases (for [conda](https://github.com/conda/conda/milestone/60) and [conda-build](https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4859)) will be getting worked on
- [x] (KK) GSoD Tech Writer chosen for conda.org!
- https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-dot-org/discussions/125

## New Agenda Items

- [x] (JK) Updates on Conda org setup?
- [x] (JK) Conda-build recipe format updates
- https://github.com/prefix-dev/rattler-build#the-recipe-format
- (JRG) https://gist.github.com/jaimergp/3a1dcdf524583a93529f0d122e61856a
- (JL) Standardize what we have. Then evolve that standard forward to one of these choices
- (JL) Plugins for formats?
- [x] (JK) Conda-build multiple format outputs / conversion
- example right now: wheels
- https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resources/define-metadata.html#output-type
- (also related) https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-press
- some other package formats come up: RPMs
- https://github.com/pelson/conda-rpms
- Maybe overlaps with packaging roundtable discussion?
- JL: could be a plugin API to maintain separately?
- JL: WebAssembly also came up
- JL: Maybe plugin framework (like in Conda) could be used here?
- JK: conda pipbuild
- (removed) https://github.com/conda/conda-build/blob/01bd8b4ac7d781cf9846a82708ffbec68832d7f5/conda_build/main_pipbuild.py
- [x] (JRG) [conda/schemas revamp](https://github.com/conda/schemas/pull/26)
- [x] (JRG) EuroScipy 2023 @ Basel: [Maintainers track](https://www.euroscipy.org/2023/maintainers.html).