2021-12-14

Attending: Will, Seb, Chris, Josh, JM, Dom, Andreas, Petr, Khaled, Melissa, Kevin, Wilma, Erin, Emil

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Seb):
- IDR demo’d on Thursday (4DN workshop) - few glitches
  - back to normal state now
  - Spin up prod 104 soon
- Discussion with 4DN group re genomic loci metadata
  - Will: good understanding and agreement of where we are now.
  - Josh: large use-cases coming
NGFF
- OKRs
  - Proposal for rnd settings. Issue to be created to spec repo
  - Validation - in-progress ngff PR open
  - Blog posts: first this year about what’s done and then another early next year about the ongoing development
- Timeline issues (Josh)
  - v0.4 timeline
    - implementations - MoBIE next year.
      - 27th Jan target for Java, python, vizarr
    - HCS
      - no major change to omero-cli-zarr. Primarily aligning packages
      - Spec changes - could be 0.3.1 or after 0.4?
    - testing
      - more tests for NGFF repos would be useful
  - Next call - jan 27th
    - Registration to be opened before end of year
  - hackathon - starting jan 31st
    - Occasion to finish some things
    - J-M: can list of participants grow if virtual? A priori yes
Releases
- Bio-Formats released last week. lots of collaborations
- Leica work, expected release in Jan patch/minor?
- How to update community to use in OMERO
- JM: full OMERO release needed in due course to fix SNAPSHOT version included in last release of omero-server package.
Glencoe
- Bio-Formats, customer queries etc.
- Holidays 23rd - 2nd
Community
- log4j fun
  - Thanks to Curtis for finding jars
  - Lots of loci_tools usage (searching github)

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)