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tags: Tuesday
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# 2022-03-08

Attending: Will, Seb, Frances, Josh, Petr, Jason, Khaled, Jean-Marie, Melissa, June, David, Chris, David S,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

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

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR:
- next release aimed for early April
- New UI (idr front page) and videos due early April
- https://idr-testing.openmicroscopy.org/
- IDR storage changing - Seb: more details coming

- NGFF
- metadata kick-off (Josh):
- "metadata completeness" needed for IDR
- Underlying data in form of OME-NGFF
- 0.4 & samples
- ZarrReader & MoBie getting close
- more distributed work than previously - growing community
- zarr-python 2.11 issues
- fill values, numpy indexing bugs. Let Josh know if you see any issues

- Releases
- Django 3.2 PR merged, moving towards rc1.
- last PR to add django-cors-headers to requirements
- rc1 used in omero-test-infra for mapr
- webtagging PR opened, but we can't merge/release
- Chris: TODO: upgrade guide for plugin authors
- Jason: schedule? RC1 by end of week
- docs & deployment updates
- Seb: Done by end of March? release and deployed on our systems

- Glencoe
- Django 3-2 done
- New staff due next week
- bioformats2raw - update to latest NGFF spec

- 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)