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# 2021-07-21 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/2021-07-21/12:00/b/Conda%20community%20meeting)
* [Last Meeting's Agenda and Minutes](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/tree/master/meetings)
## Attendees
| Name | Initials | Affiliation | GH Username |
| ------------------ | -------- |-------------- | --------------- |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda | @jezdez |
| Matthew Becker | MRB | cf | @beckermr |
| Jaime RG | JRG | Quansight | @jaimergp |
| Sebastien Awwad | SA | Anaconda | @awwad |
| John Lee | JL | Quansight | @leej3 |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | @mbargull |
| | | | |
### Introductions
### Announcements
### Standing Items
* Conda Community website mockups
* JRG: Quansight Labs could not find a suitable applicant for the internship
* JL: Anaconda might tackle this as part of their docs update. It would be in the open to welcome community contributions.
* MRB: Previous plans included a GH Pages site at conda-incubator
* Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting
### New Agenda Items
* Place to store agenda: https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/tree/master/meetings perhaps
* Centralized help for the community?
* Stale and lock bot going to start being used. Manay of these details could be migrated to a FAQ for the community. Via Github discussions?
* Separating technical issues from user questions is important
* Choosing the appropriate umbrella organization is required. maybe conda?
* Jaime: dual strategy? Forum and more private chat app like slack
* discord?
* We need at least one way though... (for folks to reach the community group? mailing list?)
* we have 6 people on this one: https://groups.google.com/g/conda
* how is the community room on gitter being used?
* Packaging con call for presentations is open: http://packaging-con.org/
* Adding a tab for open conda positions on our pending community website would be nice.
### Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting
### Active Votes
### Subteam Updates
### Open PRs
## Discussion
* Hiring a senior conda dev :D https://boards.greenhouse.io/anaconda/jobs/3222881
## Action items
* posted meeting notes: https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/blob/master/meetings/archive/20210721_agenda_and_minutes.md
## Last meeting points