2019-06-18

Dundee: OWL!, J-m, June, Mark, Dom, Petr, Simon, Will, Riad,

Remote: Seb, Josh, Frances, Andreas, Melissa, Liza, David, Chris, Wilma

Start: 2:00 pm

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• Data-In (Ingest)

  • IDR: Provisional release date for prod70/OMERO 5.5: 16-SEP-2019

    • incl . OMERO 5.5 + BF 6.

    • Roadmap planned for summer.

  • 2 new Datasets linked to up-coming publications.

• Data-Out (UI/Search)

  • OMERO 5.5 released

  • TODO: fix installation docs.

  • Gallery released!

    • Need to remove IDR-specific code. Reusable by other

      installs.

    • Will: looking at moving to a JS framework (React >

      Aurelia)

    • Seb: use gallery for learning server? E.g. browse courses.
  • Preparing playbooks to update systems - outreach, demo, then

    prod systems.

    • Also update web apps. Especially on demo.
  • Josh: need longer discussion on omero-downloader. E.g. start

    design issue

    • Especially for UI design

• SA (learning/mail)

  • Learning

    • Mark: Figured out more web configuration. Simon introduced

      me to VMware. Will is looking at a login redirection issue for the index of courses. Next to migrate the testing I did on OpenStack over to VMware. Asked Help4U for Spacewalk access to OME resources.

    • Deadline - July 31st should be plenty of time

  • Image.sc: shared account as noted. Any feedback?

    • Can configure for e-mail notifications.

  • Google suite for e-mail lists. Mark and Josh to work on this

• Glencoe

  • Chris: investigating removing checkLocation from the import

    workflow

  • Docker containers for microservices. Omero-ms-thumbnails /

    image-region

  • Use for BF memo in IDR 0.7.0?

• Community

  • Cologne:

    notes

    • Happy to discuss any of the various items, or we await an

      ordered list.

    • Largest discussion point is likely the marketing strategy

      • Install issues and getting users involved

      • Document various workflows - similar to walkthroughs

      • Migrate ‘help’ pages to main documentation?

      • Will: creating and updating training walkthroughs in

        gdocs is easier than ‘help’

      • Josh: users have a hard time finding docs in various

        places

      • Petr: search in help pages not working well

      • Chris: similar feedback about users not knowing that

        there is training material. Part of overall web findability issue.

      • Chris: google search doesn’t find various docs very well

      • Simon: use ‘readthedocs’ for everything? Easier

        deployment etc.

      • Josh: ‘help’ will be migrated elsewhere.

        • Unity is important for users. Currently big split

          www vv sphinx

    • Next meeting to be in Sept. in Osnabrück

  • Brno/ELMI workshop (Petr)

    • Best attended. Popular. 22 & 23 people.

    • S3 interest.

    • Several deep dives of up to an hour.

  • Dundee training (Petr)

    • Small group but active participants

    • Feedback - usual suspects: downloader, parade, tables,

      image-image links (provinance/workflows) etc.

  • Planning:

    • Montpellier - January

    • NZ - 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)

Done: 14:40