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# 2024-05-08 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 |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | mbargull |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp |
| Marco Esters | ME | Anaconda | marcoesters |
| Wolf Vollprecht | WV | prefix.dev | wolfv |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda/cf | chenghlee |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/cf | jezdez |
| Klaus Zimmermann | KZ | Quansight | zklaus |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Nichita Morcotilo | NM | prefix.dev | nichmor |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |

X people in total

## Introductions

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## Announcements

- [x] (JL) governance repos moved into main conda organization!
- https://github.com/conda/governance/issues/80
- https://github.com/conda/governance
- https://github.com/conda/ceps
- https://github.com/conda/assets (previously conda-incubator focused)
- [x] (CHL) Jannis, Bianca, Cheng, Dasha, Wolf, Michael Sarahan will be at PyCon US 2024. Come join us at the [Python] Packaging Summit and Sprints.
- We should discuss [PEP 725](https://peps.python.org/pep-0725/).
- https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-725-specifying-external-dependencies-in-pyproject-toml/31888

## New Agenda Items

- [x] (WV) sharded repodata - demo!
- CEP open here: https://github.com/conda/ceps/pull/75
- [X] (JRG) Request for more info about conda-incubator -> conda changes.
- [x] (JL) New CLA process!
- Yes, we'll all have to re-sign the NumFOCUS specific CLA.
- Tracking epic: https://github.com/conda/infrastructure/issues/932
- Looking for steering council volunteers for CLA reviewer team
- https://github.com/conda/governance/issues/136