Bi-weekly Nebari community meeting | 17 January 2023 🪴💎

# Bi-weekly Nebari community meeting | 17 January 2023 🪴💎 ###### tags: community-meeting **Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/rio-ngrj-kyh** **Moderator: Pavithra** **Notetaker: Tania** 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. * We use [takingnotes.rocks](https://takingnotes.rocks/) to **randomly select a meeting moderator and note taker** at the begining of each meeting. We'll make sure to select returning members, as to not put new community memebers 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 * Tania / she-her/ @trallard / Quansight * Eskild / he-him / @iameskild / Quansight * Vinicius / he-him / @viniciusdc / Quansight ## 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 ...] * ## Updates and announcements _Share ongoing work, new releases, something cool you built on Nebari, upcoming conferences, and more!_ * :tada: Pavithra and Dharhas will be giving a Dask tutorial at PyCon US :tada: ## 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. :)_ * Ideas for Nebari talks/tutorials at SciPy 2023 * CFP deadline is 22nd Feb, conference is in July https://www.scipy2023.scipy.org/ * Would folks on the call be interested in partnering with us for talks? * Dharhas and Rich could you share your previous proposals? * Yes - @trallard proposes crafting a tutorial on collaborative and reproducible research with multiple tools, such as nebari and conda-store -> so the main focus is on skills and practices that folks can leverage besides the tools * Idea (Rich) - have a comparison table or similar on how nebari compares to other services (2i2c for example) and other platforms * maybe @trallard can check in with 2i2c folks to make sure we are representing this accurately * leveraging the publication of open data sets (NASA and earth science) to highlight nebari and how it can help with analysing data at scale * not only solving the "data availability" -> but solving the environment at scale * Rich -- pip installed package persisted for all users? * Chris: maybe something to do with the write permissions * CLI + guided-init demo -- identify areas for improvements * Corresponding issue: https://github.com/nebari-dev/nebari/issues/1478 * guided-init feedback * (Tania) keeping track of numbers needed to add credentials: I * :bulb: Can the credentials be saved in a temporary env variable? -> there were some issues with `os.setenv`, could we directly set a bash env variable? * :bulb: Ability to provide credentials as env variables rather than pasting by default * :bulb: Mask password and project_id instead of completely deleting these (mostly to help users with a visual cue) ## Actions _Clear action items with an assignee._ - [ ] Assignee - Action item Did we complete last meeting's actions? (Note taker, please copy past action items here)