tags: Tuesday —

2025-05-06

Attending: Will, Petr, Josh, JM, Jason, Chris, Andreas, Seb, David, Khaled, Frances, Kyle, Erin, Kevin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • final stages of prod127 release planned for Thursday this week
• OMERO
  • Seb: OMERO.server dependencies upgrade will start opening PRs from this, based on customer security scan
  • Good chance for others to get involved in components release
  • Good idea to enable github security / deps scan? JM: yes, agreed
  • Josh: I get GitHub security alert digest: see https://github.com/settings/notifications
    • Jason: Threshold for concern?
• Bio-Formats
  • Tests running again.
  • Plan BF 8.9.2 release in May. Need to decide on what goes in.
• NGFF (Josh)
  • 1.0 Discussions at Woods Hole OME2025 meeting last week.
  • other RFCs:
    • transforms
    • channels
    • collections (Norman)
  • Next major steps for Zarr? Steering council meeting on Thursday. Feedback/suggestions welcome
• GerBI
  • ELMI presence (community room, vendors, etc.)
  • MiFoBio interest in on-site OMERO (as for TIM)
    • J-M: contacted Julio in January, reduced size and more restrictive this year if attending
  • RSpace interest. Rspace now open-source
  • Others interested in Hardware provision
• Glencoe (Chris)
  • Django 5.2 released in April. We have 11 months before deprecation of 4.2 series. Upgrade shouldn’t cause too many issues.
    • https://endoflife.date/django
    • Python 3.13 support needed - a few little update issues we need to address
  • Erin: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20273/presentation/3538
• Community
  • Jason: OME2025 meeting went well. Good to see everyone
  • Update on BINA OME2025 Meeting and Hackathon
    • Internal Notes and Comments
    • Ongoing discussion

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)