---
# System prepended metadata

title: '2022-12-06'
tags: [Tuesday]

---

---
tags: Tuesday
---

# 2022-12-06

Attending: Will, Dom, Jean-Marie, Frances, Josh, Petr, Khaled, June, Kevin, Wilma, Andreas, Kyle, Tom Boissonnet, Chris, Jason, Melissa, Erin, Seb, David Stirling, 

Start: 2:00 pm UK

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

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR (Frances)
    - release on Thursday:
        - includes idr0144
        - search-engine multi-node deployment
    - Storage - discussing move of some HPA data to s3

- OMERO
  - Reviewing remaining open PRs 
      - will include latest bioformats

- Bio-Formats
    - patch release 6.11.1 last week
    - 6.12 milestone created for next year

- NGFF (Josh)
  - http://zarr.dev/blog/zep1-update (& ZIC)
  - NGFF refactoring?
  - JupyterCon in May ~12th-14th (Paris) - deadline 12th Dec
      - Zarr v3
      - JM: some example notebooks using Zarr vv IDR API
  - Will: Zarr v3 spec - layout differs from v2. NGFF spec currently specifies data layout with v2

- GerBI
    - Tom: TIM2023 workshop: OMERO deployed on Hive for use in the workshop
        - Plan to publish the OMERO DB that comes from the workshop
        - Prepare ahead to expect various image types etc from the different workshops
        - OMERO server should be suitable for image analysis requirements from workshops. E.g. CellProfiler connection
        - Aim to optimise performance
        - 15 image acquisition workshops - challenge to import from all at the same time
        - Novice OMERO users in workshops - 4 or more data stewards to supervise
        - Jason: vendor systems - what connectivity exists?
        - Tom: last time: wired connections from vendor systems. Lots of wires!
        - Hive CentOS virtual machine, OMERO installed with Ansible playbook. Modified playbook to add plugins etc.

- Glencoe (Chris):
    - various PRs being reviewed / merged
    - omero-web dependency upgrades, e.g. jQuery-UI
        - Call at 4pm today

- Community
  - BINA Question (Josh)
      - how can BINA community help with training?
      - Plan visit & workshop - Montreal
  - Access to "Dundee" Systems, now and beyond

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
