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# 2022-02-02 Conda Community Meeting

* [Meeting link](https://zoom.us/j/9138593505?pwd=SWh3dE1IK05LV01Qa0FJZ1ZpMzJLZz09)
* [What time is the meeting in my time zone](https://arewemeetingyet.com/UTC/2022-02-02/17:00/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 |
| ------------------- | -------- | ------------- | --------------- |
| Cheng H. Lee | CHL | Anaconda | @chenghlee |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | @beeankha |
| Jaime Rodríguez-G. | JRG | Quansight/CF | @jaimergp |
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | @tnabtaf |
| Eric Dill | EDD | VoltronData | @ericdill |
| Tania Allard | TA | Quansight Labs| @trallard |
| Brett Cannon | BC | Microsoft | @brettcannon |
| Sebastien Awwad | SA | Anaconda | @awwad |
| Filipe Ferandnes | FF | CF | @ocefpaf |
| Jannis Leidel | JL | Anaconda/CF | @jezdez |
| John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/CF | @jakirkham |
| Dan Meador | DM | Anaconda | @ltDan33 |
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22 people total

### Introductions

* Saundra
* Brett Cannon
* Jesse Scearce
* Ryan Crow
* Tania Allard

### Announcements

### Standing Items

### New Agenda Items

* conda solver integration with mamba
* https://github.com/conda-incubator/conda-libmamba-solver
* (Eric) what's the plan for rolling this out to the community? how do you opt-in?
* When are we planning on asking for feedback? Now?
* We'll be public and obvious about this, not now.
* (FF) will libmamba be a hard dependency?
* (JR) If you enable new solver without libmamba installed, you will receive a warning
* (JL) Not for Conda, just conda-libmamba-solver
* How to we protect the base environment?
* (FF) what if we offered an option to lock the base environment?
* (BC) pip has `PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV` to force users to not touch their base install
* (WV) micromamba: statically-linked, single-binary C++ reimplementation of conda
* (BC) work to get all tooling on-board (VS Code, PyCharm, Navigator, etc)
* (JL) CEPs repo: https://github.com/conda/ceps
* (BC) VS Code 1.64 (next release) will add support for `conda run`
* Release notes: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_64.md
* Python Launcher: https://github.com/brettcannon/python-launcher
* Shell activation is problematic for editors (and other subprocess contexts)
* Can we consider alternate meeting times?

### Deferred Agenda Items

### Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

### Active Votes

### Subteam Updates

### Open PRs

## Discussion

## Action items

## Last meeting points