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tags: Tuesday
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# 2021-03-16

Attending: Will, Petr, Frances, Seb, Jean-Marie, June, David, Chris, Kevin, Wilma, Melissa, Dom, Josh,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

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

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR
- Release tomorrow with idr0093 fix
- Also lightsheet study
- JM: notebook will be linked to study for first time. Binderhub run by EBI.
- Will be used for EBI training - Mid July

- NGFF
- Benchmark & paper (GPFS woes)
- ngff issues discussion
- breaking changes - PRs open
- relaxing spec wrt flexible dimensions
- Next few breaking changes (0.2, 0.3)
- Biohackathon Europe (Apr. submission)
- Week-long, slack/zoom discussions etc

- Releases
- OMERO.web 5.9.0 tomorrow: everything is now in place
- BioFormats patch release early next week

- Glencoe
- conversion tools progress
- 0.3.0 releases. isyntax2raw
- Ship with our own version of jzarr?
- forked with -gs version
- Need python zarr release with our changes

- Community
- OME 2021
- Workshops discussions
- Other sessions being planned.
- Recorded talks - Ask contributors to upload to YouTube
- 1st-4th June - not fixed yet, but keep free
- ELMI 2021 - 22-25th June

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)