2022-02-08

Attending: Will, Jean-Marie, Petr, Frances, Andreas, Emil, Kevin, Josh, Seb, David Stirling, Chris, Jason, Melissa, David G, Erin, Mina, Muhanad,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR
- ongoing next release, 2 studies
- idr0123 issue with display of multiple OMERO.tables- omero-web PR open #352
- Jian Ma’s group working on paper that uses idr0101 data
NGFF
- 0.4 spec released & live (Seb)
  - implementations looking good - pre-release state
  - bioformats2raw also good
  - MoBie also in progress
- 0.5 and beyond (Josh)
  - transforms - John Bogovic
    - https://github.com/ome/ngff/issues/94
    - implementation may not be relevant in our tools
  - tables (anndata) - Kevin
    - discussed squid-py using OME-NGFF
  - metadata - 0.6 or 0.7?
- Also zarr-python 2.11 released.
- new community manager - tweeting, blogging etc.
- sparse: use TileDB?
- upcoming issues e.g. sharding, sparse data etc need voting / decision by zarr community
Releases
- omero-py 5.11.0 - see changelog PR. Release later today
- Bio-Formats 6.9.0 - prep in progress. Leica PR outstanding, call later this week.
  - https://github.com/ome/bioformats/milestone/83
  - Other issues to be cleaned up this week & next
  - aim to release week of 21st
Glencoe
- auth issues resolved
- exploring more Zarr in JavaScript
- Erin: NGFF blog-post / tweets
Community
- Josh: Meeting dates
  - questions arising (Damir, Nikki, …)
  - public post e.g on image.sc

Django 1.1 EOL https://github.com/ome/omero-web/issues/353
- existing PR to be revived
- Chris: wide impact on community, API changes, existing web apps etc.
- Need strategy for notifying community etc.
- Seb: to respond to issue, close etc.
Chris: blogposts
- Java 17, Django, …

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)