# Bi-weekly Nebari community meeting | 25 April 2023 🪴💎
###### tags: community-meeting
**Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/rio-ngrj-kyh**
**Moderator: Pavithra**
**Notetaker: TBD **
Welcome to the Nebari community meeting!
## Guidelines
* This meeting is covered by [Nebari's Code of Conduct](https://github.com/nebari-dev/governance/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
* Please feel free to participate in open discussions, share your projects, or sit back and listen!
* When you'd like to speak in a discussion, use Google Meet's **"raise hand"** feature, and wait for the moderator to call your name.
* (Not implemented yet) We use [takingnotes.rocks](https://takingnotes.rocks/) to **randomly select a meeting moderator and note taker** at the beginning of each meeting. We'll make sure to select returning members, as to not put new community members on the spot. :)
* The moderator is responsible for running the meeting, and giving everyone a speaking opportunity
* The note taker is responsible for recording all important points in this HackMD document, **and** post it on the [GitHub Discussions forum](https://github.com/orgs/nebari-dev/discussions/categories/community-meetings) after the meeting for better searchability.
## Attendees
_All meeting attendees can add your details here!_
* Prefered name / pronouns (optional) / @github-handle / affiliation (optional)
* Pavithra / she-her / @pavithraes / Quansight
* Eskild / he-him / @iameskild / Quansight
* Kim / @kcpevey / Quansight
* Adam Lewis / @Adam-D-Lewis / Quansight
* Vinicius / @viniciusdc / Quansight
* Maxime / @Dr0p42 / NaasAI
* Rich Signell / @rsignell-usgs /
* Dharhas Pothina / @dharhas / Quansight
* Johnny Bouder / @jbouder / MetroStar
## Introductions
_If you are new to this meeting, this is the time to introduce yourself!_
_We have an introduction template below, but please share what you're comfortable sharing. :)_
[Quick intro: Hi, I'm ..! I live in ..., and study ... / work as a ... at .... I'm a Nebari user/contributor/maintainer, and I'm primarily interested in .... In my spare time, I enjoy ...]
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## Updates and announcements
_Share ongoing work, new releases, something cool you built on Nebari, upcoming conferences, and more!_
* Dharhas, PyCon updates you'd like to share with everyone?
* Impromptu demos of Nebari and conda-store 6-8 times a day
* 2 new contributors created PRs as a part of mentored sprint
* Some issues, noted action items
* Tutorial went well, major issues with dask-gateway. Ref: https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/issues/1750
* Rich will be presenting a tutorial on 10th May
* [Adam] Nebari Workflow Controller PR (https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/pull/1741)
* k8s admission controller that prevents users from mounting volumes and conda envs they shouldn't have access to when using argo workflows
* Can be extended with a similar mutating admission controller to give a simple default experience for users of Argo Workflows
* [Eskild] Prioritzing upgrading (max) Kubernetes version
* Azure and DO no longer support Kubernetes version 1.23.
* Will be working with Adam
* what is the typical cloud-k8s cycle?
* every 3-6 months upgrade, supported for ~2 years
* document this in the maintainers guide -> release process
## Discussion topics
_Is there something we should discuss as a group? Something you want feedback on?_
_Note: If you have a usage question, our [Discussion Forum](https://github.com/orgs/nebari-dev/discussions) would be a place to ask. :)_
* Maintenance processes:
* Community bi-weekly triage meetings? Maybe rotate the lead?
* Align on contributing workflow
* new-contributor kubernetes test issue
* RFDs?
* [Johnny] updates on cds dashbords?
* In talks with DTN about replacing cds dashboards with somethign else
* we can get a demo working soon
* Johnny might be able to support this effort
* [Dharhas] working on a gov project in collab with metrostar
* will fund some parts of nebari dev like the [ext. mechanism](https://github.com/nebari-dev/governance/issues/35)
* [Rich] working with planetary computer
* Tom Augsperger might take a look at Nebari
* Azure/k8s issue, ping Tom about this
## Actions
_Clear action items with an assignee._
- [ ] Assignee - Action item
- [ ] Pavithra - create an issue about conda-build req for local test
- [ ] Pavithra -- look into issue templates for the docs repo
Did we complete last meeting's actions?
(Note taker to copy past action items here)