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tags: Tuesday
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# 2024-04-16

Attending: Will, Frances, Dom, Jean-Marie, Petr, Khaled, Maadhav, David, Melissa, Seb, Chris, Andreas, Kyle, 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):
- preparing to import idr0157 to idr-next, release by end of month
- NGFF testing on idr-testing looking good
- new rocky9 pilot to test updated mkngff scripts

- OMERO
- Action: release omero-script to fix naming issue following https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v69-3-0
- artifacts built with latest setuptools named omero_scripts.. instead of omero-scripts.tar.gz
- Ongoing PRs review then Java components release and Openmicroscopy release before DB upgrade. Opportunity to adjust require version cf GS report
- can consider dropping support for some Java versions
- Andereas: 2 omero-web PRs under review. Looking at feedback

- Bio-Formats (David)
- 7.3.0 release later this week (Thursday)
- Started bumping and releasing lower-level components today
- No updates to ZarrReader since last week, waiting on further testing

- NGFF

- GerBI

- Glencoe (Chris)
- Erin and Chris at Bio IT world this week
- Blog post on Zarr https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2024/04/15/optimizations-ome-zarr.html
- Emil in Miami doing talk
- JM: using omero2pandas with CellProfiler, any nice examples? David S: yes, poster is good resource. JM: will ping with questions
- Seb: Java 17 support: https://github.com/ome/openmicroscopy/issues/6383

- Community
- EBI course next week, Petr, JM, Frances
- community meeting
- registration link to go on website soon, [PR open](https://github.com/ome/www.openmicroscopy.org/pull/708)

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)