2024-06-11

Attending: Will, Dominik, June, Khaled, David Gault, Josh, Jason, Tom B., David Stirling, Kyle, Melissa, Seb, Erin, Chris, Kevin

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Will)
- idr-testing getting the last few things in place: ZarrReader, microservices, memoizing. Goal is to be back to where we were previously with centos7
  - some issues with memo file generation. not reliable and requires re-runs. unknown resource errors.
  - PRs opened to bump library versions
  - microservices are still manually deployed.
  - Josh: plan on moving to idr-next? need automatic deployment.
  - Jason: good to get the timeline
OMERO (Will)
- thumbs up to release figure
  - one last PR to bump the version
  - new dependencies
- KV pairs script (Tom)
  - Petr wants it released for the workshop
  - waiting for final thumbs up (after affiliation fix)
  - Josh: go ahead and merge, still awaits release
Bio-Formats
- David: ZarrReader IDR changes merged and released
- PR review yesterday: next milestone planning. Next priorities 8.0.0 TBD (needs wider discussion)
NGFF
- Zarr V3 Alpha going out as we speak
  - more people getting involved since OME2024
- Challenge feedback positive. Meetings start tomorrow.
  - NFDI4BioImage meeting today - some interesting discussions/ideas
  - Meetings scheduled, starting tomorrow 10:00, 4pm
GerBI
- Nothing much. Just back from ELMI, etc.
Glencoe (Seb)
- OMERO 5.7 outstanding issues:
  - https://github.com/orgs/ome/projects/26
  - Some overlap with Bio-Formats 8.0.0
- NGFF challenge discussions
- Erin - will schedule OMERO/Zarr discussion
Community

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)