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tags: Tuesday
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# 2022-11-29

Attending: Josh, June, J-M, Khaled, Seb, Melissa, Wilma, Chris, Kyle, Kevin, Erin, David, Tom, Jason, Will,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

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

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR
- J-m: Preparing improvements in the search. Focus is to move the last remaining UI components to the new backend. Goal is to release the first week of December, including the multi-node component. (Under review)
- Seb: possibly have a working storage solution using Embassy S3. Need a call to "move to production".
- Jason: re: IDR mailing list long-term thread regarding working with https://www.protocols.io/
- Looking for IDR datasets that have protocols.io links. A few are perhaps on the way.
- Initially, "just a link" to an external resource. Interesting idea for a value add.

- OMERO
- J-m: looking into various PRs. Seb working on insight redirection to correct QA.
- This will trigger a round of releasing the stack (incl. Bio-Formats)

- Bio-Formats
- David: finalizing that at the moment. 6.11.1 patch release planned for Thursday (Dec 1)

- NGFF
- Zarr v3 status [board](https://github.com/orgs/zarr-developers/projects/2/views/2)
- feature freeze Dec 19 (no new issues)
- if interested, plan some time into the new year

- GerBI
- Tom: presentation on DMP at TiM next week when Petr is back.
- Tom: server is now working.
- Data in Hive. Import functioning. (Copy of training server so we can use the same material)
- Into adding plugins OMERO.web via ansible. (Self-training)
- JRS: kudos on the Hive milestone :tada:
- Tom: OMERO.figure PR? Will -> J-m

- Glencoe
- Chris: getting PRs in for the end of the year.
- Few issues raised on the omero-certificates front (due to cryptography libraries & dependency hell)
- Needed for newer distros and versions of Python.
- May need more rapid releases to keep people running.
- Accepting complexity burden.

- Community
- Training roadtrips starting again.

## AOB
- Power Outages
- Rolling?
- Unsure what it means for the university, IT systems, and availability.

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)