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# 2023-10-31

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

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):
    - EBI transfer storage: Seb working on public side, waiting on permissions change. Write access to private storage has been agreed
    - fileset.zarr.bfoptions file looking good in ZarrReader. Adding option to create that in mkngff tool

- OMERO
    - OMERO.web release 5.23.0 last week (Django 4.0, python 3.8)
    - Next: look at python 3.11 support in web
    - OMERO.figure PRs from RemyDornier. Few merged and ready to release, later this week
    - Open Doc PRs installation instructions of OMERO on RHEL 9/Ubuntu 22.04
    - Start merging and tagging ansible-role. We will use the tagged version to deploy Indonesia server
    - Docs - TODO: add warnings page for CentOS7

- Bio-Formats
    - ZarrReader (see above)
    - PR reviews yesterday: 7.1.0 planned for mid December. Melissa's work (open PRs) and some external work

- NGFF
  - ZEP2 (sharding codec) moving forward. Some exciting last minute discussions. Voting closing today. Some responses missing - will keep trying.
  - 2 more or less active Zarr workgroups (refactoring & benchmarking). Releases unclear.
  - Workflow hackathon next week: Mon-Thurs, in Zürich. OME-Zarr used in workflows.
  - SpatialData & standardization. Docs etc needed for community

- GerBI (Tom)
    - working with Annotations - loading from various sources. May open some PRs

- Glencoe (Chris)
    - team at SBI2 now
    - Followed by Glencoe con later this week
    - Emil and Andreas looking at filtering in OMERO.web

- Community
    - Petr & Dom travelling to Barcelona next week
    - EastBIO coming up

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
