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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)
