2024-08-15

Attending: Will, Dom, Frances, June, Tom, Josh, Seb, Kyle, Kevin, Andreas, Khaled, Melissa, Emil, Erin, Maadhav

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • release this week: idr0139, idr0149
  • NGFF conversion - most studies converted and being submitted to BIA. Been in touch with EBI
  • Ongoing testing of mkngff and ZarrReader
• OMERO (Andreas):
  • various perf-related PRs open
  • Seb: image.sc announcement for memory fixes. Important to update.
    • Josh: add code to OMERO Blitz directly?
    • Kevin: could do, yes. Can open PR.
      • Need to test with Blitz code AND jar
• Bio-Formats
  • Melissa: few small PRs for minor releases
• NGFF (Josh)
  • Not much in the last week (GerBI).
  • EMBO workshop mid-September (Heidelberg). Advanced Bio-Imaging analysis. Data management (no OMERO) -> OME-Zarr
  • Then CORDI conference (Karlsruhe). Research Data Infra.
  • “Industry contact” mechanism. Not just Josh’s e-mail.
• GerBI (Tom)
  • final steps with webtagging rename, connect github repo to pypi etc.
• Glencoe
  • Erin: spatial biology workshop at end of August. Will mention NGFF
  • Seb: TLS updates
• Community

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)