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tags: Tuesday
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# 2024-04-23

Attending: Will, Dom, JM, Frances, Josh, June, Chris, Seb, Khaled, Petr, David, Kevin, David S, Melissa, Kyle, 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):
- Dom importing idr0157 on idr-next (13 TB) aim to release by next week, including rocky9 update
- idr-testing of NGFF update, looking good.
- Plan to release after next release
- Will: looking at iviewer spinners (during movie playing)
- Khaled: using caching for microservices. Testing looked good this morning.
- microservices limited to 10 channels max - [configurable](https://github.com/glencoesoftware/omero-ms-image-region/blob/master/src/dist/conf/config.yaml#L12)
- iviewer doesn't currently know about this limit or how to handle it

- OMERO
- releasing OMERO model etc later this week
- UI blocking PR in progress
- OMERO.figure patch release last week
- Ready for release of update with vite.js etc.
- Petr testing nightshade upgrade to RHEL9

- Bio-Formats
- 7.3.0 released (Java 21 compatibility etc).
- 8.0.0 planning but no timeline yet
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- NGFF
- SpatialData news ([eg twitter](https://x.com/embl/status/1782713170932703710))
- [RO-Crate](https://w3id.org/ro/crate/) could be used for Collections in NGFF. Proposal needs writing
- Zarr v3 roadmap ([1777](https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/issues/1777))
- May: alpha, June: release(-candidate)
- Recent spec bugs (implicit groups, v2/v3 mixes - needs clarifying that this should be avoided)
- Refactoring group (v3) to become zarr-python dev group
- SciPy, PyData, NASA, oh my
- Erin feedback?
- Seb: Zarr v3 in NGFF? Wanted to get transforms out first, but may not be possible. Josh: want to push on v3 soon.
- Melissa: Zarr Java needs work. Tricky to handle v2 and v3 at the same time. Josh: needs more thought/planning

- GerBI
- Josh: OMERO workshops in preparation.
- Funding: i3d ending
- TIM 2025: planning on OMERO server install again

- Glencoe
- ABRF meeting this week
- Presented NGFF etc.
- Seb: OMERO.figure export script fix to limit rendering plane size. Patch release?
- JM: update action - will open PR

- Community
- Only 1 external registration so far!
- EBI course this week Thurs/Fri (JM, Petr, Frances)
- JM: Internal OME tech talks on Tuesday meeting? Short topics, e.g. 15 mins
- Chris: prep done for 2 talks e.g. server-side threading,

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)