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# 2021.05.25

Attending:

* Petr, Josh, Frances, J-m, Dom, Jason, Wilma, David, June, Seb, Will, Khaled, Andreas, Kevin, Melissa, Erin, Chris

Start: 2:00 pm UK

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

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR
  - prod97 release prep with idr0109. Aim to release next week.

- NGFF
  - Dask Summit - Life Science Workshop
    - Topics: stability, prefect, xarray, sparse, GPU
    - 13 / 15 videos were biological imaging. Many mentioned zarr
    - ann data structure - use OME-zarr? Needs sparse
    - lots of dask - GPU usage (nvidia)
    - https://github.com/theislab/anndata
  - Paper Reviews and the go ahead
    - Josh v5 - table of where to address reviewers comments
    - what to be cited for?
    - compare HDF5 to zarr
    - Chris: it's not just analysis that we care about

- Releases
  - this week:
    - omero.web ready to go
    - omero.figure 

- Glencoe
  - clarifying OME relationship - website updates

- OME2021
  - Lots of talks submitted. Going well.
    - ~25 videos submitted. Review ahead of time
  - Josh: Demos anyone?
    - Zoom breakout rooms 2-3 hours. rolling in/out etc.
    - Erin - happy to demo pathviewer. 5pm UK
  - Seb: zoom test
    - Test zoom meeting register etc.
  - Breakouts / evening sessions (til 1900)
    - Good to know who can attend what
    - Jason: last year, random breakout rooms was popular
    - Josh: could be during Q & A sessions
  - Workshop run-throughs tomorrow & Thursday

- Community
    - NIH-HubMAP Mtg Update
      - OME-TIFF, 2D and 3D
      - See Hubmap data portal: https://portal.hubmapconsortium.org/
      - Resources. Mass-spec data shown in Vitessce viewer
      - Strong motion toward 3D
      - Chris: overview of spat. transcriptomics
        - Jason: lots of technologies under this umbrella
    - 4DN call for collaborations if anyone has ideas

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

- OME Strategy (JRS)
- An announcement (JRS)

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
