2021-01-26

Attending: Will, Petr, Frances, Wilma, Dom, Josh, Jason, June, Simon, Kevin, Jean-Marie, Erin, Chris, Melissa, Emil, David

Start: 2:30 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR
- Release today or tomorrow morning.
- JRS: with idr0071? Yes. Final checks.
NGFF
- Josh: Several ongoing threads (Polygons, Collections) on image.sc
  - Start working/thinking on these
  - Upcoming call? - none since Nov
  - Ask community to start drafting spec?
  - EMBL might be working on collections
  - Anyone working on Polygons? Glencoe?
- 3D/Lightsheet (Will)
  - Kicked off export of idr0044
  - Didn’t get very far. May need to use existing data and downsample it.
- Benchmarking (David)
- jzarr and S3
  https://github.com/bcdev/jzarr/discussions/15
  - Chris - opened a couple of PRs (merged)
- Jason: good to get an update on benchmarking
  - Josh: created some test data 60 GB
  - Lots of parameters to adjust
  - https://github.com/ome/ngff-latency-benchmark/pull/3
  - Discuss at 2pm tomorrow?
Releases
- Preparing insight release mainly mde fixes
- Also coming: web, figure
SA
- Simon: Seb’s been looking at GPFS nodes.
- Ansible migration to 2.8 (J-m: will need to double check some repositories)
Glencoe
- Updating bioformats2raw layout for 0.3.0
- Testing jzarr and updating microservices (incl. on AWS)
Community
- GBI this week (ends 1:30 UK each day)
  - JRS: not EOSC branded.
- National DigPath call Thurs. morning.
- J-m to mention Fraunhofer/COVID data
- J-m: should start organizing scripts, notebooks under “ome” umbrella

(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)