2021.03.02

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

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR:
- Released this morning with 2 new studies. idr0090 and idr0099
- 2 new organisms - malaria and beetles
NGFF
- Benchmarking
  - uploading 200 GB to s3
  - Graphs looking good
  - Quite a bit of hard-coding, but working
- Community & Specs
  - ngff call last week has resulted in lots of active discussion
  - next step - concrete implementation suggestions
- Zarr
  - Java
    - No v3 implementation in the works. Bit of a holding pattern.
  - Python
    - merging into master branch for V3
    - will be a little unstable for a bit
Releases
- released OMERO.matlab: 5.5.4
- released OMERO.insight: 5.5.17
- web: PRs ready and under review
Glencoe
- Helping Josh with cloud testing for ngff
- BF2raw and raw2ometiff updates with jzarr
- Emil working with CellProfiler-OMERO connection
  - Moving from Java to Python API
- File-format support work from vendors
Community
- GBI: OMERO/IDR training Australia
  - need to handle time-difference

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)