2021-07-06

Attending: Will, Jean-Marie, Frances, Dom, Josh, Khaled, Petr, David, Jason, Melissa, Erin, Kevin, Muhanad, Chris, Emil, June

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR:
- 3 new studies for next release - End July or early August
- EBI workshop prep in progress (next week)
NGFF (Josh)
- Presenting to European HDF5 User Group tomorrow with the message about the “suite of formats” but also about using Zarr URLS as a common API (https://github.com/intake/fsspec-reference-maker)
- Otherwise, primarily focused on getting the paper back out before holidays and then recording presentation for Microscopy & Microanalysis 2021 together with Napari-Nick. (EMBL group is working on MoBIE with OME-Zarr for a presentation there as well)
  - J-m: video prepared for ELMI ome-zarr MoBIE
- Few minor bugs have slipped in, and the need to import Zarrs into IDR pilots is still on the horizon.
Releases
- out: insight 5.6.0 (focusing on mde for Suzanne paper)
- next candidate iviewer for next IDR release - Time in DAY units
Glencoe
- various PRs and discussions in progress
- OMERO.tables race conditions - not ideal but works
  - JM: other tables fixes to be released in due course
- Chris: see https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/csjgwang/cloudb/
Community
- EMBL course next week. IDR Thursday 14/07

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)