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# 2024-09-03

Attending: Will, Petr, Josh, JM, Khaled, Seb, Dom, Frances, Melissa, Chris, Kyle, Muhanad, 

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):
    - Testing of idr-testing microservices deployment. Mostly good with a couple of errors - Khaled looking into it...
    - Will be released with software upgrades from David, along with idr0138. Imported on idr-next with annotations. Looking at rendering settings now.
    - ngff-challenge conversions. Deadline of 20th September for idr0090, idr0044, idr0157

- OMERO
    - omero.web released last week with 'archived' fix
    - omero.figure released with various external contributions and max-projection limits.
    - Java gateway released yesterday. Insight release in prep, expected by end of week.

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
    - Extended formats meeting yesterday. Cleaning up open PRs.
    - Planning 8.0.0 release timeline. Likely weeks rather than months.
    - External contributions:
    - Josh: Readers & Tools
        - Some parts of the code are not maintained now. Extract into separate repo? Get other maintainers involved?
        - External readers in separate jars. How to handle this list? e.g. environment variables

- NGFF (Josh)
  - Challenge: meetings tomorrow. Some conversion activity from contributors
  - RFCs: RFC-1 response to reviewers. Please endorse! https://github.com/ome/ngff/pull/258
  - RFC-2: waiting on final reviewer comments
  - RFC-3: few edits coming
  - RFC-4 & 5 final edits then to be created
  
- GerBI (Josh)
    - TIM meeting prep (March 2025). Building on OMERO deployment on Hive from last year. Lots of ideas on how to add to this! LDAP, registration, NGFF, IRODs etc.

- Glencoe (Chris)
    - see webclient API fix above. Ideas for refactoring & improving API

- Community
    - Global bioimaging Japan. 27th Oct. Josh going. Registration open.
    - Followed by founding GIDE. Interest in OMERO workshop.

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
