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# 2020-12-15 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/2020-12-01/09:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)
* [Last Meeting's Agenda and Minutes](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/tree/master/meetings)

## Attendees

| Name | Initials | Affiliation | Username |
| ---- | -------- |------------ | -------- |
| | | | |
| Michael Grant | mcg | Anaconda | mcg1969 |
| Crystal Soja | CAS | Anaconda | @csoja |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | | @ocefpaf |
| Matthew Becker | MRB | conda-forge | @beckermr |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/conda-forge | @mbargull |
| Christopher "CJ" Wright | CJ | Lab49 | @cj-wright |
| Connor Martin | CJM | Anaconda | @cjmartian |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda | @chenghlee |
| Michael Sarahan | MCS | RStudio | @msarahan |

## Agenda

* Welcome
* Is there a meeting happening on the 29th?
* Voice vote to cancel the 29th.
* Host for next meeting?

### Announcements
* (FF) 5K on conda messaging granted from NumFocus
* Cheng, Marcelo to work on it.

### Standing Items
* Anaconda: Organizational-level CLA
* No current updates.
* Existing CLA: consider updating to clarify a real name is required

### New Agenda Items

* Dropping Python 2 support in conda, conda-build in base environment
* https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/10180
* https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4024
* Decision on Python 3.6 vs 3.7? (3.7: UTF-8 by default; data classes)
* (MG, CS): In favor of conda on 3.6, conda-build on 3.7
* (MB) concern raised about lag in conda development if significant 3.x refactoring is done
* (MB) concern about noarch <-> arch upgrade process, raise issue if a shadowed update is available
* (MB) miniconda 4.5.4 last Py3.6 installer
* (MS) separate CLI to make such decisions easier; longer term project.
* (CHL) staying with 3.6 in 2021 unless something else comes up.
* Should we have a permanent resource (e.g., blog post) saying why users should upgrade? (Probably yes)
* Who else should we invite to this meeting?
* Intel
* IBM (POWER, RedHat -> containers)
* Pangeo
* CZI
* HPC centers
* Tensorflow, Pytorch, etc.
* Others, as needed for specific topics

### Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

* N/A

### Active Votes

### Subteam Updates

#### Open PRs

* N/A

## Discussion

## Action items

## Last meeting points (2020-12-01)