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# 2022-02-08

Attending: Will, Jean-Marie, Petr, Frances, Andreas, Emil, Kevin, Josh, Seb, David Stirling, Chris, Jason, Melissa, David G, Erin, Mina, Muhanad,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

## Accepting minutes from [last meeting](https://github.com/ome/meeting-minutes)

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR
  - ongoing next release, 2 studies
  - idr0123 issue with display of multiple OMERO.tables- omero-web [PR open #352](https://github.com/ome/omero-web/pull/352)
  - Jian Ma's group working on paper that uses idr0101 data

- NGFF
    - 0.4 spec released & live (Seb)
      - implementations looking good - pre-release state
      - bioformats2raw also good
      - MoBie also in progress
    - 0.5 and beyond (Josh)
      - transforms - John Bogovic
        - https://github.com/ome/ngff/issues/94
        - implementation may not be relevant in our tools
      - tables (anndata) - Kevin
        - discussed squid-py using OME-NGFF
      - metadata - 0.6 or 0.7?
    - Also zarr-python 2.11 released.
    - new community manager - tweeting, blogging etc.
    - sparse: use TileDB?
    - upcoming issues e.g. sharding, sparse data etc need voting / decision by zarr community

- Releases
    - omero-py 5.11.0 - see changelog PR. Release later today
    - Bio-Formats 6.9.0 - prep in progress. Leica PR outstanding, call later this week.
      - https://github.com/ome/bioformats/milestone/83
      - Other issues to be cleaned up this week & next
      - aim to release week of 21st

- Glencoe
  - auth issues resolved
  - exploring more Zarr in JavaScript
  - Erin: NGFF blog-post / tweets

- Community
  - Josh: Meeting dates
    - questions arising (Damir, Nikki, ...)
    - public post e.g on image.sc

## AOB

 - Django 1.1 EOL https://github.com/ome/omero-web/issues/353
   - existing PR to be revived
   - Chris: wide impact on community, API changes, existing web apps etc.
   - Need strategy for notifying community etc. 
   - Seb: to respond to issue, close etc.
 - Chris: blogposts
   - Java 17, Django, ...

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
