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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

- [ ]

## 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

