2020-07-07

Attending: Will, Josh, Sebastien, Simon, Jason, Jean-Marie, June, Wilma, Petr, Frances, Melissa, Dom, David, Chris, Andreas, Emil, Erin, Kevin,

Start: 2:00 pm

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Project Status

(2-3 minutes each

• IDR:

  • Next release… 2 studies, idr0084 and idr0086 both in testing.

    • Release later this month

    • Simon: Seb’s been testing B-F release on idr-testing

• NGFF

  • Masks

    • A couple of discussions - notes available

    • 4 PRs open in various repos. All working with agreement on

      format.

    • No multi-resolution work yet (mask pyramids).

      • Might be OK without downsampling for now

    • Mark back next week to implement latest in microservice

    • Groups. Other specs?

    • Timeline/Demo
  • NB: Ongoing python/bioformats [twitter

    thread</u>](https://twitter.com/DrAnneCarpenter/status/1277981620969115649)
  • [Simon] Restarted attempt to get [Ice 3.6 all platforms

    into conda-forge</u>](https://github.com/conda-forge/zeroc-ice-feedstock/issues/3)

• GGlence:

  • Welcome Erin

  • Bio-Formats backports

• SA (learning/mail)

  • Mail migration has gone okay? Can now back up then turn off

    necromancer?

    • If it’s a full disk backup it should probably be encrypted,

      otherwise backup relevant directories

  • Seb: mbox -> Google Group archiving workflow

    • Runs overnight and “it works” - low cost

    • Ome-users Done

    • Google groups more searchable

    • Jason: nit-pick and devel would be worth doing

      • Good record of 2 decades

• Community

  • Eosc training: J-M & Petr attended this am a zoom conf about

    remote training. Some usual tools/tips presented. TODO: go over some of the notes

1. AOB

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

• Release process started: BF 6.5.1 to get out first

• OME Team Funding and Contracts

1. Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)