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title: "Bi-weekly Nebari community meeting | 25 April 2023 \U0001FAB4\U0001F48E"

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# 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)
