2024-10-01

Attending: Dom, Frances, Petr, Andreas, Khaled, Kyle, Josh, Jason, Seb, Chris, Melissa, Erin, David

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR
  • Continue Antibody Mapr work.
  • Branding for NGFF challenge.
  • Meeting on search/gallery for antibody name Thursday.
  • New submission, will be asked to convert to Zarr (v2).
• OMERO
  • More discussions about patch release for web
• Bio-Formats
  • Discussed timeline for 8.0.0, planed for Oct. ???
  • Bitplane
• NGFF
  • Challenge:
    • status: few hundred TBs
    • stragglers
    • few minor issues: BDV, tensorstore, FLIM
    • presentation at I2K, GBI, etc.
    • Plan to present update? Josh: NFDI and I2K
    • JRS: at CZI on October 16th. connect on taglines.
  • RFC updates
    • RFC-1: (RFC) waiting on reviewer responses
    • RFC-2: (v3) accepted. spec & implementations (Seb’s 6 month estimate)
    • RFC-3: (n-dim) basically ready; to be sent for review.
      • SB: inclined to get RFC-2 out alone.
      • JRS: will discuss on Monday from IDR POV.
    • RFC-4: (orientation): have list of reviewers
    • RFC-5: (transforms): have list of reviewers
• GerBI
  • Josh: Working on various workshops. Collaborating on training material, see mailling list.
• Glencoe
  • Chris: Omero.tables; Meeting this week.
  • David: 5min talk at conference (ELRIG Drug discovery, London), accompanied by blog post.
• Community
  • BioImage Archive SAB Meeting this week; JRS: discussion with Matthew about direction of projects, conversions, data storage, etc.
  • OME Funding: Wellcome, 2x UKRI, +1 more UKRI; Kick off team meeting to be scheduled some time Nov.
  • Kobe -> 2 day OMERO workshop November 2024 (+ OMERO installation), FoundingGide pre-meeting, and hackathon (4th Nov). Installation, imaging workflows, analysis.
  • Brno - December, 1 day workshop

AOB

• UoD IT. Petr: Migration to ESS will happen tomorrow. Testing was ok. Centos to RHEL9 is finished, except 2 machines: merge-ci (too big for UoD IT), ome website vm (in progress). merge-ci will need our own hardware/box. JRS: Will have funds for hardware.

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)