2022-10-25

Attending: Will, June, Frances, Khaled, Jean-Marie, Josh, Seb, Kevin, Dom, Tom Boissonnet, Kyle, Melissa, Andreas, Muhanad, Chris, Erin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances)
- next release (next week)
  - new yeast high-content screen
  - annotation fixes (whitespace etc) found during work on search
  - Search: redirect mapr searches to search-engine
- Storage: testing HPA on embassy s3 bucket
- Need to plan for ZarrReader upgrade on production IDR
  - 2 upcoming studies will need it.
- Search: working on multi-node setup for next release
OMERO
- PR on omero-py/certificates/cli-server with implication on docs
Bio-Formats
- Melissa: fixing few bugs
NGFF
- Backlog but growing momentum?
- Zarr V3: lack of (visible) progress
- Zarr-spec - non-regular chunks
- xarray spec: ongoing disagreements
- NGFF for AI paper: simplifying the goal
  - may try TensorStore
GerBI
- TiM preparation? Ongoing, but will provide feedback. (Trying omero docker on the Hive)
Glencoe
- Importer stack - making it easier to subclass etc
- tight coupling between import API and blitz
- OME 2022 preparation
Community
- Presentation to students today
- Community meeting prep on-going

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)