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Ten years of conda-forge!

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The conda-forge core team

Today, 2025-04-11, marks the 10th anniversary of the conda-forge community.

Join us in this Zulip thread and share how you got involved with conda-forge, how this community has helped you, or just to show appreciation to the thousands of volunteers that make this effort possible!

To many more years! 🎉

One billion downloads per month​

While there are too many important milestones to name across those 10 years, just a few days ago, we passed 1,000,000,000 monthly downloads across all packages for the first time ever. 🥳

In total, we have served almost 27 billion downloads, and that's not even counting all those that happen behind various institutional caching layers. This tells us that the fruits of this community collaboration are having an enormous impact. If you'd like to share where conda-forge has saved you hours of work, streamlined your processes, or made some ideas possible at all, please also jump in on the Zulip link above!

Why today?​

This date can be found as the creation date of the conda-forge Github organization:

$ curl "https://api.github.com/orgs/conda-forge"
{
  "login": "conda-forge",
  "id": 11897326,
  "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjExODk3MzI2",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/conda-forge",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/conda-forge/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/conda-forge/events",
  "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/conda-forge/hooks",
  "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/conda-forge/issues",
  "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/conda-forge/members{/member}",
  "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/conda-forge/public_members{/member}",
  "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11897326?v=4",
  "description": "A community led collection of recipes, build infrastructure and distributions for the conda package manager.",
  "name": "conda-forge",
  "company": null,
  "blog": "https://conda-forge.org",
  "location": null,
  "email": null,
  "twitter_username": "condaforge",
  "is_verified": false,
  "has_organization_projects": false,
  "has_repository_projects": true,
  "public_repos": 25378,
  "public_gists": 0,
  "followers": 1103,
  "following": 0,
  "html_url": "https://github.com/conda-forge",
  "created_at": "2015-04-11T07:37:06Z", // <----------------- See here!
  "updated_at": "2025-03-13T11:32:03Z",
  "archived_at": null,
  "type": "Organization"
}

And the anaconda.org production channel:

$ curl -s "https://api.anaconda.org/user/conda-forge" | jq
{
  "company": "",
  "created_at": "2015-04-11 10:15:08.727000+00:00",
  "description": "A community-led collection of recipes, build infrastructure, and distributions for the conda package manager.",
  "location": "",
  "login": "conda-forge",
  "name": "conda-forge",
  "url": "",
  "user_type": "org"
}

If you want to learn more about the early history of conda-forge, check this draft PR, where we're in the process of crystallizing the collective memories of many current and prior contributors into a cohesive account of the most important events and milestones.