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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        |
|        |       |       |       |

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
