2021-03-23

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

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR:
- prod95 released last week - fix + idr0106
- lots of studies ongoing
NGFF
- Benchmark and paper (Thurs. deadline)
  - Suggestions for update to Figure 3 (instead of screenshots)
  - Some AWS issues outstanding
- Few minor PRs (writer, etc.)
- Spec discussions on going
  - e.g. plates/collections
Releases
- omero-py 5.9.1
- bio-formats 6.6.1
- few omero-web fixes
  - e.g. sparse plate layout options omero-web PR
Glencoe
- bf2raw etc (RC-)release today or tomorrow
- Include Josh’s nested fixes? Auto-detection + other bug-fix
- New readers coming soon
OME2021
- Save the date sent. 7th-11th June
- Working on schedule - Seb/June/Josh/JM meeting on Tuesdays
- Working on workshop (IDR) Thursdays at 10:00
- Idea of 3rd-party demos
- Keynotes
- Pre-record workshops too
  - More webinar like rather than interactive demo
  - Would we sit through webinar?
  - Keeping timezones in mind if we want to repeat i.e. keep a single track
  - Will: how to handle people not having seen the video?
  - Petr - could do ‘live’ first time through, and video available for other timezones.
Community
- J-m to re-activate EBI training (12th of July)

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)