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# 2023-10-11 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 |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ------------ | ---------------- |
| Bianca Henderson | BH | Anaconda | beeankha |
| Wolf Vollprecht | WV | prefix.dev | wolfv |
| Filipe Fernandes | FF | conda-forge | ocefpaf |
| Bas Zalmstra | BZ | prefix.dev | baszalmstra |
| Daniel Holth | DH | Anaconda | dholth |
| Rachel Asquith | RAA | Anaconda | rasquith |
| John Kirkham | JK | NVIDIA/cf | jakirkham |
| Dave Clements | DPC | Anaconda | tnabtaf |
| Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra | JRG | Quansight/cf | jaimergp |
| | | | |
10 people in total
## Introductions
- [x] (WV) New core member Bas Zalmstra :tada:
## Announcements
- [x] (BH) New [Build Tools Team](https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4698)!
- 10a Eastern Nov 2
- If you're interested in joining the GitHub group, please leave a comment on the issue linked above!
## New Agenda Items
- [x] (JK) CDN getting a bit slow
- https://github.com/conda/infrastructure/issues/836
- https://github.com/conda/infrastructure/issues/829
- RA will look into this.
- [x] (JK) `arpack` issue resurfacing
- https://github.com/conda/infrastructure/issues/797
- No progress in last month?
- Cheng investigated previously, but no report.
- Still missing as of 4 hours ago.
- DPC will ping Cheng about this.
- [x] (WV) Can someone fix the conda download counting?
- YES!
- https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-package-data/issues/41
- [x] (BZ) Conda-lock issues (if we have time)
- https://github.com/conda/conda-lock/issues/432 (remove content hash?)
- MVN will bring this up in prefix.dev chat.
- BZ: We are striving to use standard conda-lock in Pixi.
- https://github.com/conda/conda-lock/issues/433 (reconstruct repodatarecord from lock)
- https://github.com/conda/conda-lock/issues/491 (alphabetic ordering of packages)
- https://github.com/conda/conda-lock/issues/521 (pep404 standard not used in lock file)