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# 2024-01-31 Conda Community Meeting

[Zoom link](https://zoom.us/j/9138593505) · [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 |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ------------ | ---------------- |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/cf | jezdez |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp |
| Marcel Bargull | MB | Bioconda/cf | mbargull |
| Schuyler Martin | SM | Anaconda | schuylermartin45 |
| Travis Hathaway | TH | Anaconda | travishathaway |
| Katherine Kinnaman | KK | Anaconda | kathatherine |
| Ryan Keith | RK | Anaconda | ryanskeith |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
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X people in total

## Introductions

- [x] Jaida (Anaconda) from Distro team.

## Announcements

- [x] [JL] conda, conda-build, conda-index and conda-libmamba-solver January releases are coming
- [ ] https://github.com/conda/conda-index/releases/tag/0.4.0
- [ ] https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/releases/tag/24.1.0
- [ ] https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/5134
- [ ] https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/13486

- [x] [KK] Miniconda docs are moving domains soon-ish
- [ ] From docs.conda.io to docs.anaconda.com
- [ ] This is to continue separating Anaconda and conda and friends concerns, since Miniconda is a smaller Anaconda Distribution

## New Agenda Items

- Memes

- Call for Easter eggs
- Snake game while an environment is solving

- [x] GitHub macOS 13 and 14 runner images don't contain miniconda anymore
- GH doesn't intend to fix it (allegedly)
- https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/9262#issuecomment-1918858684
- New focus on setup-miniconda? Time to graduate?
- MB: Create issues in setup-miniconda for:
- Which warnings to be added.
- Suggested use cases in the absence of Miniconda.
- New name candidates?
- conda/setup-action? (to account for multiple installers)
- Maintenance risks.
- `$CONDA` users are 2k+: https://github.com/search?q=%24CONDA%2F+path%3A.github%2Fworkflows%2F*&type=code