2019-05-14

Dundee: Petr, Dom, Jason, J-M, Mark, Simon, Will, Ilaria

Remote: Seb, Josh, Frances, Melissa, David, Riad, Andreas,

Start: 2:00 pm

1. Setting up meeting

• Video: not doing anything at the moment

• Audio:

  • JRS: Testing new microphone setup for Tuesday meetings, may buy

    an Owl

  • Easier setup & hopefully better audio

  • Smaller room

  • Looking at multi-directional mic plus camera

• Ilaria introduction (penguins, dolphins, sea lions, albatrosses, oh

  my …)

  • In the OME office

  • Introduced to OMERO ~1 year ago in environmental science

  • Looking for data services and tools for people

  • Needed to review compatibility with own’s primary type of data

  • Also integrating with tools like Orbit, Fiji. Scripting next

    thing to investigate

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

No objections

1. Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• Data-In (Ingest)

  • Bio-Formats 6.1 (David)

    • Most PRs merged, writing up release notes

    • Aim: release this week or early next

    • Integrated with OMERO 5.5, pyramid bug is fixed

  • Need to writeup benefits of new BF in OMERO e.g. new formats,

    dependency bumps which fix bugs, etc

• Data-Out (UI/Search)

  • OMERO 5.5 Docs

    • Aim to release at end of month

  • UI (Will)

    • Implemented most required features for first version of IDR

      gallery

    • Now refactoring code

    • Need to review config options for gallery

    • Josh: get large PR in and build incrementally?

    • Jason: still internal?

  • IDR Metadata (Seb): Reorganising existing top-level keys-values

  • Search: N/A

• SA (learning/mail)

  • Jason: Summary of [yesterday’s

    discussion</u>](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N34J-WpsrLnEHRpknYp-sYS6MFod5dwmAKZAb91VAFo/edit#)

    • Limited resources but looking into a junior sysadmin

    • For now distribute current tasks, and reduce number of

      existing tasks

    • Kill Necromancer, aim for end of July:

      • Move mailing lists and phpBB to Discourse image.sc

      • Move email handling to Google org

  • Josh/Mark: Mail plan

    • Turn on Google Apps, turn off mailman and phpbb

  • Josh: Discourse update

    • Team, emojis, etc. (see

      https://forum.image.sc/g/ome )

    • Updated the #image_sc channel

    • Seeing if migrating existing posts is possible, otherwise

      existing forum and lists will be made read-only

    • Ome team created. Have all the team joining

    • Raises questions about standup process i.e. what counts as

      an answer? How inclusive do we want to be if someone else from the community answer?

  • Josh: merge-ci. Thoughts? Time to start turning off jobs?

    • No objections to turning off jobs. Will start going from the

      bottom.

    • If you notice a missing job add it to devspace/merge-ci
  • Simon/Mark/Dom: Move virtual microscope to VMware, consider

    including read-only server in setup.

    • Option one: New VM deployed with Ansible, standard

      OMERO.server/OMERO.web

    • Option two: New VM running Docker, OMERO.server-readwrite,

      OMERO.server-readonly cluster and OMERO.web in Docker

    • In future might need to allow writing, e.g. for examining

      students

• Glencoe

  • Webinar today 💯

• Community

  • FYI: ome-model discussion tomorrow (Josh)

    • Notes etc. in ["Arch. & Design" > "ome-model

      2019”</u>](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1zdQ7ZT4ymDNZbVRtg5RdEVn-vJxXFjlq) folder

  • GitHub repository migration from openmicroscopy to ome

    organization (Seb)

    • Includes all public repositories. IDR organization unchanged

    • Goals: unification, simplification, team management, search

    • Old GitHub links will be redirected to the new URLs

    • Main impact are the external deployments (PyPi, Galaxy,

      DockerHub)

  • Next training sessions:

    • Brno, Cz, June 2019

    • UoD workshops, June 2019

    • Freising (Munich), October 2019

    • New Zealand, November 2019

1. AOB

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

1. Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)