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tags: Tuesday
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# 2024-02-06

Attending: Will, Dom, Petr, Frances, Muhanad, Andreas, JM, June, David, Josh, Khaled, Seb, Kyle, Kevin, Jason, Melissa, Chris, David S, Maadhaav

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):
- Looking at 2 fixes for NGFF perf
- configuration changes:
- large memory usage when loading NGFF data
- e.g. 20 Threads of 1GB memory each
- Ice threads and DB connections. e.g:
- config set -- omero.db.poolsize 40
- config set -- Ice.ThreadPool.Server.SizeMax 25
- config set -- Ice.ThreadPool.Client.SizeMax 25
- When Django gives up (timeout) server doesn't give up, then Django tries again!
- Also looking at microservices deployment
- BioFormats - David looking at sizes of memo files but minimal space for improvements. E.g. some memos 100MB. 95% of what's stored is ome.xml
- Jason: target publication dates? Frances: some pressing dates coming up. Feb release would be nice.
- Won't add any more studies to the 2 new ones in this release.

- OMERO:
- waiting on omero-web python 3.12 changes before full testing with omero-py
- RHEL9 - preparing switch of ci infrastructure

- Bio-Formats (David):
- 7.2.0 release should go ahead this week on Thursday

- NGFF (Josh):
- Zarr v3 status: zarr-python v3 branch is active. Major review coming up. Any users should have a look. Try to get blog post on changes for users.
- Movement on other ZEPs. Zep4 on conventions.
- Unidata update (netCDF etc) devs left.
- Will: started looking at v0.5 support for ome-ngff-validator...

- GerBI
- Conferences, etc.

- Glencoe (Chris):
- python 3.12 (see above)
- Erin presenting tables etc at SLAS in Boston. Will add poster to website

- Community (Petr):
- Karolinska workshop 14th Feb
- Wellcome BioImaging

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)