tags: Tuesday —

2025-02-18

Attending: Will, Dom, Josh, Frances, Khaled, Seb, JM, Petr, Andreas, Tom, Kevin, Melissa, Jason, David, Chris, Kyle,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR: Frances:
- released prod126 this morning: 2 studies idr0159 and idr0165
- Also included iviewer max channels
- EBI Embassy openStack upgrade this week before we can spin up new machines
OMERO
- JM: Preparing for release with latest Bio-Formats. Reviewing PRs
- Andreas: Seb has PRs to support JSON data in login
  - Will’s PR on LUTs getting close
Bio-Formats
- Melissa: Josh/Seb have been reviewing PRs etc and writing response to contributors. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DGQAyYnEndOsx7O1jNBSsAxd2WeAwb5ytK4-BjelmfU/edit?tab=t.0
NGFF
- Focus on ZEP9 (zarr-specs changes) FYI. TLDR: flexibility in zarr metadata. Do we allow in OME-Zarr? TBD.
- Community call Friday (agenda is open)
- Finishing hiring at GerBI next week
- Dom: looking at and learning Zarr Java
GerBI
- Tom: TIM workshop prep. Less than 1 month. Preparing attendees, vendors etc for working with OMERO. Uploading data from workshops, annotating with Rembi etc.
Glencoe: some meetings coming up. Watch this space.
Community
- TechDev project– “BioNGFF”. Data Stories completed.
- “Skills” update? Sync with BIA, call on Friday. Course first week of April.
- JM: will ask for viewers feedback in TechDev channel later
- Jason: National imaging infrastructure grant in progress. Also AI funding possibilities
- AI for Growth
- ISFP funding for Indonesian/UGM OMERO.

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)