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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)
