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# 2024-02-27

Attending: Will, Dom, June, JM, Khaled, Seb, Andreas, David, Frances, Petr, Kyle, Melissa, Chris, Tom, Maadhav, Jason, 

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):
    - NGFF issues on idr-testing: decided to release idr0154, idr0155 without NGFF work.
    - Continue to work on NGFF for next/future release
    - JM: webclient improvements (based on latest omero-web) will require infrastructure update (Django 4.2 etc)
    - Frances: studies after this release are bigger
    - Seb: deployment on hold at EBI
    - Will: omero-web imgData json without stateful services and iviewer handling of tileloaderrors
    - Khaled: ansible playbook to deploy microservices
    - David: reduce memo file size to improve perf
        - Now thinking how to reduce reading memo file - openBytes gets path to zarr chunks

- OMERO (JM)
    - new ci is ready - will switch after Indonesia trip
        - won't copy DB etc from existing merge-ci
        - Runs on Rocky9 with Postgres16
        - Clients will require Java11 (Jenkins is Java11 by default)
    - Andreas: 525 - Python 3.12 support
    - Will: figure release

- Bio-Formats
    - Next major release 8.0.0 - possibly smaller bug-fixes into earlier patch releases.
    - Chunk API - revive previous work. Useful for large 3D images
    - Melissa - Java 21 testing this week.

- NGFF

- GerBI (Tom)
    - GerBI community meeting next week - will discuss Data Management etc.

- Glencoe (Chris)
    - checking dependencies stack on JDBC: no concern
        - Seb: see omero.model draft PR to upgrade driver
    - single sign-on: discussing requirements of the tech stack
    - JM: docs update to use Postgres 15 (recommended)
    - Seb: Python 3.12 testing - web apps etc.

- Community
    - Will: next week at this meeting Julio Mateos Langerak (Montpellier) will present (5th March):
        - See recent discussions on [microscope metrics](https://forum.image.sc/t/microscope-metrics-under-development/91624) and [OMERO URIs for LinkML](https://forum.image.sc/t/uri-to-access-data-in-omero-using-the-omero-api/92571/7)
    - Petr & JM: Indonesia trip next week
    - Jason: OME meeting - planning last 3 days in May in Dundee.
    - Jason: discussions on NGFF in Seattle: multiple thumbnails / representations of an image
        - discussions on funding, OMERO future etc.

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
