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tags: Tuesday
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# 2022-07-26

Attending:J-M, Seb, Josh, David, Jason, June, Dom, Frances, Khaled, Melissa, Mina, Andreas, Wilma, Chris

Start: 2:00 pm UK

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

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR
- release yesterday idr0120 (prod108)
- testing new storage at EBI:
- ongoing working on access time
- reported to Matthew. Ongoing discussion.
- usability/credible solution to be evaluated
- other tools to be considered/tested as alternative solutions e.g. store in S3 and access from IDR

- OMERO
- SCL Python work
- Also threads about environment support (RHEL9 etc)
- Chris: patches for Ice/Ubuntu 22.04 not too critical. Some work in progress already

- Bio-Formats
- David:
- catching up post holidays
- ramping back up on testing open PRs
- looking at last few fixes for a patch release.
- Timeline for release of the patch release will be aiming for getting remaining PR’s merged this week and looking at a release next week

- NGFF
- [CZI single-cell RFA](https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/single-cell-data-insights/)
- Upcoming proposal for NGFF/AnnData
- CZI EOSS4 reporting ongoing (EOSS1 finally closed out!)
- Assume transformations call is now post-summer
- [Zarr 3.0 final review](https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-specs/pull/149)
- interesting questions about separation of metadata. MIght be something we could leverage
- jzarr implications
- meeting in the next week or two?
- Chris: perception of the handling of authorization/authentication has gotten worse. Huge implication on Bio-Formats/data access, providing credentials
- Possibly need to decide public vs private data and whether we need two solutions or can define a single one

- Glencoe
- Focusing on customers related issues
- Channel approach in OMERO can be problematic in some cases.
- Extension to OMERO.web to support multi-users: Allowing to swith context
- Exposing features from CLI to Web.

- Community
- FYI: GBI course next year in Japan (first week of July)
- Community meeting (virtual):
- plan in progress, to be ready before end of the week.
- suggestion:
- couple of days for presentation/discussion week 14/11
- couple of days for workshops (2 weeks later)

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)