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# 2024-07-03 Conda Community Meeting

[Zoom link](https://zoom.us/j/9138593505?pwd=SWh3dE1IK05LV01Qa0FJZ1ZpMzJLZz09) · [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 |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ------------ | ---------------- |
| 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 |
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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