Ten years of conda-forge blog post (#2500)

Co-authored-by: h-vetinari <[email protected]>

Author: jaimergp

blog/2025-04-11-ten-years-of-conda-forge.md

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+---
+authors:
+  - core
+---
+
+# Ten years of conda-forge!
+
+Today, 2025-04-11, marks the 10th anniversary of the conda-forge community.
+
+Join us in [this Zulip thread](https://conda-forge.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/457337-general/topic/10.20years.20of.20conda-forge/with/511579313) 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! 🎉
+
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+
+## One billion downloads per month
+
+While there are too many important milestones to name across those 10 years, just [a few days
+ago](https://github.com/conda-forge/by-the-numbers/commit/09eefe47d4cd1c4d9bc29c2ea5f9b07cc9100433),
+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:
+
+```js
+$ 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:
+
+```js
+$ 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](https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/2298), 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.

src/components/Header/index.jsx

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                 <ThemedImage
                     alt="3D-Anvil illustration for conda-forge"
                     sources={{
-                        light: useBaseUrl("/img/anvil-light.svg"),
-                        dark: useBaseUrl("/img/anvil-dark.svg"),
+                        light: useBaseUrl("/img/anvil-light-10.svg"),
+                        dark: useBaseUrl("/img/anvil-dark-10.svg"),
                     }}
                 />
             </div>