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title: "Bi-weekly Nebari community meeting | 13 August 2024 \U0001FAB4\U0001F48E"

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# Bi-weekly Nebari community meeting | 13 August 2024 🪴💎

###### tags: community-meeting 

**Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/rio-ngrj-kyh**
**Moderator: Vini**
**Notetaker: Pavithra**

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.

## Attendees

_All meeting attendees can add your details here!_

* Prefered name / pronouns (optional) / @github-handle / affiliation (optional)
* Kim Pevey / Quansight
* Vinicius Cerutti / @viniciusdc / Quansight
* Austin Macdonald / @asmacdo / DANDI project / Center for Open Neuroscience
* Zach
* Chuck
* Marcelo
* Tyler
* Michal
* Ronnie
* Vishnu
* Pavithra
* Dharhas

## 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 comfortbale sharing. :)_

[Quick intro: Hi, I'm ..! I live in ..., and study ... / work as a ... at .... I'm a Nebari user/contributor/maintianer, and I'm primarily i interested in .... In my spare time, I enjoy ...]

* Austin - Software engineer, looking into JupyterHub for the DANDI project. Located in Illinois
* Ronnie - UX designer at Metrostar, working on usability study and looking for user feedback on Nebari
* Vishnu - Software security, Arlo solutions team. Will be providing advice on security best practices for Nebari

## Updates and announcements

_Share ongoing work, new releases, something cool you built on Nebari, upcoming conferences, and more!_

* Nebari release `2024.7.1` :rocket:  Includes:
    * Encypted s3 buckets
    * New RBAC roles for conda-store
    * Theme customization updates
* conda-store will be updated with the next release

* Marcelo
    * Maintenance - Migrating from gcloud to google python SDK
    * Auditing legacy AWS modules

* Ken
    * Migrated the self-registration plugin repo to the Nebari org: https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari-self-registration
    * Someone with org-level permissions to verify permissions
    * New feature that enables "multiple coupons"
    * Need new place for
        * container image storage - can have a simialr setup to other Nebari docker images with quay.io
        * published package on PyPI - give permission to the relevant Nebari team - done :heavy_check_mark: 
        * JATIC deployment is being updated, will include jupyterlab-gallery

* Chuck
    * Adding uptime status checks to Nebari
    * Nebari terraform stages -> Nebari Kustomize stages. (get back to this one)
        * https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/pull/2609

* Vini
    * Security discussions around backup and restore
        * modularized design finalized
        * data storage will be customizable
        * we'll soon a keycloak component to test out
    * Fixed, upgraded, and extended some test failures, esp the silently failing Plywright e2e tests
    * Dynamic docs for config.yaml options, created from the schema

## 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. :)_

* Kim
    * could use some help debugging [mismatched node versions in docs CI](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari-docs/pull/503#issuecomment-2286215744)
    * interested in feedback on adding more organization to the sidebar of the docs. [Click here to view the change](https://deploy-preview-502--nebari-docs.netlify.app/docs/welcome).

* Tyler:
    * Nominated for the triage team along with Zach: https://github.com/orgs/nebari-dev/discussions/2619
    * New custom settings issues for AWS deployments:
        - Custom [AMIs](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/issues/2604)
        - [pre-bootstrap](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/issues/2603) and 
        - [private EKS](https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/issues/2586) entrypoints in the nebari-config.yaml.
        - Looking for community feedback on these
        - It'll be good to also extend this to GCP 7 Azure


## Actions

_Clear action items with an assignee._

- [x] Check permissions for new self-registration repo on Nebari, add Nebari maintainer team. 
- [ ] @marcelovilla  Move self-registration repo docker images to Quay


