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title: Agenda 2023-09-21
tags: [meeting, update]

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# Agenda 2023-09-21

###### tags: `meeting` `update`
- Attendees
    - [x] Adam
    - [x] Alan
    - [x] Chi-Li
    - [x] Justine
    - [x] Kandarp
    - [x] Micah
    - [x] Nathan
    - [x] Andy
- Previous Action Items
    - [x] Micah : once OME-Zarr fixes are merged, help monitor throughput on I/O
    - [x] Adam : get time on exASPIM to test triggering (ViewWorks camera)

- Topics
    - Prep for Karel & Stephani meeting
        - Stephani can't make it and will send a Program representative; Vlad Ghukasyan
        - [Slides are here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L-DLG5EsfsLZsHfY640wphQyebZoPozwM8IsEQRuFjk/edit?usp=sharing)
    - CRA Update
        - CZI Contracts and AIND Legal spoke on Monday. Issue was due to contract semantics. AIND Legal
    - Insights from Micah's user interviews


- Meeting Minutes
    - UX interviews
        - interviewed about 7 people and has Loic scheduled
            - Rory Power
            - Nakita and Fabian
            - Brandon (ASI software dev)
            - Harsh (NIH)
            - Raghav
            - Talley
            - Kevin Dean and Zach
        - using labview and have developed their own as well
            - people are developing custom solutions because MM is difficult to ramp up on
            - can UI components be extracted to be reusable? Talley interested in building it if at least 5 people would use it
        - feels like micromanager isn't going to be supported long term and isn't truly OSS
            - doesn't feel like open source because not many people contribute to it
            - people have paid MM developers to add certain features
        - people don't want something generic as it becomes less useful
            - still interested in having general composable UI components. Everyone likes the tissue map.
        - one group didn't use napari because they were worried about the number of dependencies. Used TK instead.
        - want lightweight control of the microscope as you're building instead of MM or IMswitch
            - like labview because of this
        - one person hasn't updated MM to v2 because he feels he doesn't have support, doesn't understand yet the benefits of Python
        - device adapters in MM are useful. they should be reused
        - performant data streaming is a selling point of Acquire
            - zarr support
        - clear tissue datasets
            - would be useful to have online processing to throw away irrelevant data to reduce file size
    - Previous action items
        - get time on exASPIM to test triggering (ViewWorks camera)
            - Everything works! Triggering works, setting all the properties works

- Action Items
  