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# 2023-02-15 Conda Community Meeting

* [Meeting link](https://zoom.us/j/9138593505?pwd=SWh3dE1IK05LV01Qa0FJZ1ZpMzJLZz09)
* [What time is the meeting in my time zone](https://arewemeetingyet.com/UTC/2023-02-15/17:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)

## Attendees

| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| -------------------------| -------- | -------------- | ------------------ |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/cf | jezdez |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
| Wolf Vollprecht | WV | prefix.dev | wolfv |
| Matthew R Becker | MRB | cf | beckermr |
| Eric Dill | EDD | Anaconda | ericdill |
| Marius van Niekerk | MvN | Voltrondata/cf | mariusvniekerk | |
| Deepesha Burse | DB | N/A | deepeshaburse |
| Asmit Malakannawar | AM | N/A | Asmit2952 |

16 people total

## Introductions

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## Announcements

- [x] (JL) New incubator project: installer
- [ ] Result of a longer discussion at Anaconda about alignment between various internal teams and related community efforts, related to miniconda and other installers
- [ ] Repo to contain tools and scripts to make it easy to maintain installers, derived from miniconda efforts, possibly miniforge (?)
- [ ] Major props to the constructor team!
- [ ] [Team charter draft](https://github.com/conda-incubator/installer/blob/b62841133d00e6f3a9b04964c17154ed85e14adb/CHARTER.md) ([PR](https://github.com/conda-incubator/installer/pull/1 ))
- DPC asked for clarification about constructor vs installer team
- constructor is foundational software that multiple installers are built on.

## New Agenda Items

- [x] (JL) New subteam proposal: Technical Review Board
- Proposal: https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/issues/87
- **Vote ends on 2023-02-22**, End of Day, [Anywhere on Earth](https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth) (AoE).
- Discussion about membership limits
- Proposal has the TRB as a recommendation group
- is there motivation to be on it, if there is no voting power?
- TRB has added authority.
- Is TRB redundant with the dev teams?
- Could it be an expertise aggregator?
- lots of discussion about work and responsibility
- [x] (DPC) Not participating in the upcoming Outreachy cohort.
- [x] (DPC) Any feedback on Slack/Gitter to Matrix migration?
- (JRG): What's the closest equivalent to the General channel in Matrix?
- JRG will create somethin / recommemnd something.
- [x] (JL) conda booth at PyCon US?
- DPC: Yes!
- And will find list of interested people.
- Application is due Feb 24.
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## What is this meeting for?

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.