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tags: Tuesday
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# 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](https://hackmd.io/team/ome?nav=overview)

## 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](https://forum.image.sc/t/first-release-of-omero-process-container-steward/85067) 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](https://www.angelolab.com/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)