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# 2025-01-07

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

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
    - Before holidays meeting with data stewards. Presented workflow in more detail. Next meeting (24th Jan) we will demo the workflow.
    - multi-source searchengine updates. Will to test.

- OMERO:
    - nightshade upgraded. Found a permissions issue with LUTS with group -1. PR fix at https://github.com/ome/omero-web/pull/603 
        - Seb: would be nice to understand what the issue is in nightshade
    - nginx 1.20 being installed by default (instead of 1.24) by our ansible role when machines are rebooted. The want-to-have version of nginx is 1.26.2 (fixed now on the UoD prod and testing servers).
    - All off-site UoD access now via SonicWall VPN client. Need to request access to specific IP addresses via SonicWall (specified at group level, not individual users). New VMs will need to be added when created. Associate staff status needed for non UoD staff.

- Bio-Formats
    - First formats meeting next Monday. Review PRs and plan next release 8.1.0

- NGFF
    - Spinning up work on OME-Zarr viz and validation, Java implementation. 
        - Info in [OME org](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1UdPUo_09eWe0vaMLdPk4OXQ4dcugzDPQ)

- GerBI

- Glencoe:
    - Chris: Getting back to speed, releases etc.
    - Erin:
        - Upcoming Spring meetings:
            - Sponsorships
                - March [ABRF](https://abrf.org/event/abrf-2025-annual-meeting-march-23-26-las-vegas-nv/) in Las Vegas - core facility staff 
                - [Bio-IT World](https://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/) in Boston - Big Pharma
                - [AACR](https://www.aacr.org/meeting/aacr-annual-meeting-2025/) in Chicago - Cancer Biology/Clinical
            - Invited talks
                - EMBL-EBI Industry Programme workshop on Spatial transcriptomics & proteomics

- Community
    - EMBL-EBI Course-- extended invites. AI etc. under-subscribed
    - Scheduling meeting of Wellcome BioImaging NGFF Consortium (Dundee, King's, UCL/Grenoble, Newcastle/Sanger, EMBL-EBI) later in January. Lots of big data,

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
