2023-09-12

Attending: J-M, Will, Frances, Khaled, June, Dom, David, Andreas, Tom, Chris, Kyle, David S, Kevin, Maadhav, Erin, Muhanad, Seb, Jason,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances)
  • next release importing idr0143.. - big screen. Expected end of September
  • Friday meeting to discuss EBI storage transfer and data flows IDR -> BIA
  • Jason: Global core biodata application - compiling stats
  • Jason: Wellcome funding discussions ongoing
  • NGFF upgrade next release
    • testing on idr-testing including changes to ZarrReader
    • ZarrReader performance improvements (good progress)
      • options to make assumptions on data e.g. all Well images are same dimensions (shape)
      • Need tools to trigger memo generation on Filesets - Seb: IDR tools exist
• OMERO (JM)
  • released omero-certificates
  • released omero-py
  • released all the Java components
  • released OMERO.insight
  • Next release openmicroscopy - in prep, include Bio-Formats 7.0.0
  • Rocky9/Ubuntu22.04 ansible: Work from community on-going
• Bio-Formats (David)
  • working on ZarrReader - see above
  • Nico, working on czi reader, will join meeting this week
• NGFF
  • Tables spec PR - discussions on governance https://github.com/ome/ngff/pull/64#issuecomment-1708850295
• GerBI (Tom)
  • I2K submission for OMERO.figure workshop. Will use training server
• Glencoe (Chris)
  • TLS changes nearly wrapped up
  • Ice binaries good progress
    • OpenSSL dependency docs needed - Seb, done this week
  • Kevin: OMERO.server draft PR soon
• Community

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)