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tags: Tuesday
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# 2023-08-29

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

Start: 2:00 pm UK

## Accepting minutes from [last meeting](https://hackmd.io/team/ome?nav=overview)

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR
- transfer storage: in progress with EBI. We have access
- NGFF (Will)
- Conversions almost done. idr0090 has 2 remaining plates.
- Most studies submitted to BIA. Being processed to S3 (unzipped)
- Testing migrated datasets with [omero-mkngff](https://github.com/IDR/omero-mkngff) on idr0125 and idr0138.
- Holding pattern for upcoming idr-next server.
- Then 10-15 minutes per fileset setup. Updates are quick. Images only viewable after a delay. ~1hour. (Weird)
- logs or perf4j to look at memoization times

- OMERO
- bug fixes in insight. Ready for release
- infra: work in progress on the various repos: omeroweb-install and omero-install work done with instructions for Rocky 9 and Ubuntu 22.04.
- next omero-web release to coincide with omero-py release

- Bio-Formats
- David: catching up from AL
- Next week: review
- ZarrReader:
- IDR NGFF work.
- Distribution via eg. BFtools

- NGFF (Josh)
- Another [fun thread](https://forum.image.sc/t/saving-volumetric-data-with-voxel-size-colormap-annotations/85537) around OME-Zarr usability. Would be great if community organise a meeting/chat
- Zeiss looking for a C++ Zarr library (LTS versioning?)
- export of OME-Zarr from Zen

- GerBI (Josh)
- ansible + openstack: issues getting started
- testing of new omero-autotag and omero-tagsearch

- Glencoe (Chris)
- https://github.com/ome/omero-certificates/pull/36 important
- updates to clients and server needed
- Releases out - need docs with versions to use with RHEL7 & CentOS7
- JM: will update merge-ci.
- performance issues - will discuss proposals with Kevin: Spring, Hibernate etc. Improve perf with large numbers of Groups/Members

- Community
- Petr: discussing with Richard Acton - 1-day workshop in London 12th Sept.
- Just back from Japan, Canada, US.
- Coming up EAST-Bio in Dundee

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)