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# 2024-09-11 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 |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ------------ | ---------------- |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight | jaimergp |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/cf | jezdez |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Marco Esters | ME | Anaconda | marcoesters |
| Wolf Vollprecht | WV | prefix.dev | wolfv |
| Schuyler Martin | SM | Anaconda | schuylermartin45 |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | mbargull |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/cf | chenghlee |
| Michael Sarahan | MCS | NVIDIA/cf | msarahan |
| Matthew Becker | MRB | cf | beckermr |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
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X people in total

## Introductions

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## Announcements

- [ ] JRG: Warm welcome to our newest Steering Council members: Hind and Tania! Also welcome Matt back from Emeritus!

## New Agenda Items

- [X] JRG: OCI over HTTP adapter server. Might be helpful to try OCI channels without having the OCI networking yet:
- [ ] Source: https://github.com/jaimergp/conda-oci-forwarder
- [ ] Server: https://condaociforwarder-6p3byq6z.b4a.run
- [ ] Demo:

        conda create --name oci-fwd-test --override-channels -c https://condaociforwarder-6p3byq6z.b4a.run/conda-forge python

- [ ] Unlikely to sustain actual production loads. If someone needs this, consider deploying a copy for your own use.
- [x] JL: Ongoing working to urgently fix issues within conda related to channel management
- [ ] Epic: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/14217
- [ ] Please let us know if you find other footguns in conda
- [ ] Authentication code (i.e. binstar token, `anaconda_client.py`)
- [ ] Further announcements from Anaconda related to TOS concerns forthcoming
- [ ] Refs: NumFOCUS Infra WG work on recommendating a conda package manager
- [ ] https://github.com/orgs/numfocus/discussions/8
- [ ] JRG: Use this opportunity to properly come up with good communication strategies about what the conda community vs Anaconda differences are. Put the results in conda.org for good source of truth.
- [ ] MB: Set up one or more focused calls for this topic and make sure the results of the communication are available in conda.org, conda-forge.org and others
- [x] (ED): TOS acceptance work to integrate within conda-like clients
- [ ] refs https://gist.github.com/wolfv/976558221ddc9522819c3dfce53fad13 as a possible source for TOS metadata long-term
- [ ] (WV) Blog posts:
- [ ] (WV) Conda Chatting with Community
- [ ] (WV) rattler moving to conda.org
- [ ] (WV) pixi - a new way to use conda packages
- [ ] (WV) Security sub group kick off
- [ ] (WV) CEPs - optional packages - anything planned?
- [ ] (WV) Sharded repodata, status?
- [ ] Review needed: https://github.com/conda/conda-index/pull/161
- [ ] (WV) Channels.json (externally defined index)
- [ ] Fixes "intel" channel
- [ ] Emscripten-forge, ...
- [ ] https://gist.github.com/wolfv/976558221ddc9522819c3dfce53fad13
- [ ] (JL) Communications updates
- [ ] Chat: https://github.com/conda/communications/issues/29
- [ ] Calendar: https://github.com/conda/communications/issues/33
- [ ] Mailing list? (Sympa -> Google?)
- [ ] Dave and MRB discussed this a long time ago, and decided against it, but I have the google group