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# 2021-01-26 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/2021-01-26/09:00/b/Conda%20Community%20Meeting)
* [Last Meeting's Agenda and Minutes](https://github.com/conda-incubator/governance/tree/master/meetings)

## Attendees

| Name | Initials | Affiliation | Username |
| ---- | -------- |------------ | -------- |
| CJ Wright | CJ | Lab49 | @cj-wright |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda | @chenghlee |
| Ralf Gommers | RG | Quansight | @rgommers |
| Amy Williams | AW | Anaconda | @adwilliams81 |
| Eric Dill | ED | DTN | @ericdill |
| Michael Grant | MG | Anaconda | @mcg1969 |
| | | | |

## Agenda

* Welcome

### Announcements
_None_

### Standing Items
* Anaconda: Organizational-level CLA
* Anaconda legal team contacted; moving forward with Feb. delivery
* Conda Community website mockups
* https://github.com/conda-incubator/assets/issues/2
* Blog post regarding why users should update to Python 3
* Outreach to invite more organizations to join this meeting

### New Agenda Items
* Revisit the meeting schedule. Should we change it to accomodate more people?
* Maybe a new doodle? -> (CHL) Will put schedule a poll and announce via Slack, email
* Ideally we should also ask conda-forge to be bi-weekly so we can use the same date and time allowing people attending both to reverse the slot for conda-community and conda-forge.
* (CHL) Reach out to Intel, IBM to join community calls; (PW) Apple, Netflix; (RG) Pytorch

* Python Symbol table of conda-forge packages
* https://github.com/symbol-management/cf-symbol-table

### Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

### Active Votes

### Subteam Updates

#### Open PRs

* N/A

## Discussion

## Action items
* Anaconda: update on organizational-level CLA

## Last meeting points (2020-1-11)
* Conda Community website mockups
* 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
* Should we have a permanent resource (e.g., blog post) saying why users should upgrade?
* Who else should we invite to this meeting?
* Intel
* IBM (POWER, RedHat -> containers)
* Pangeo
* CZI
* [x] MRB: HPC centers
* Tensorflow, PyTorch, etc.
* Others, as needed for specific topics