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# 2023-12-12

Attending: Will, Petr, Dom, June, Andreas, Khaled, Jason, Seb, Melissa, 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
    - NGFF update. ZarrReader released, installed on idr-next
        - mkngff sql updates applied
        - memo file creation in progress...
        - handful of plates resubmitted to biostudies and will need to be updated (mkngff etc) when ready
        - once memo file generation complete, will run some check_pixels.py scripts

- OMERO
    - 5.24 release hoped to be released before Christmas
    - few PRs have been merged, others under review
    - FileAnnotation dialog fix to handle large FileAnn counts
        - initial fix: limit to 500 FileAnnotations
    

- Bio-Formats
    - 7.1.0 released yesterday
        - release process walkthrough
        - few updates to release notes to improve docs
        - release includes remaining Dicom work
        - announced on image.sc, confocal list, 
        - Jason: will repost on linkedin. Twitter TBD
        - document on release process

- NGFF
    - Jason: ZarrReader release announcement? Announce alongside IDR release?

- GerBI

- Glencoe
    - See OMERO.web above
    - Erin: Ice-wheels blog post out https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2023/12/08/ice-binaries-for-omero.html 
        - bf2raw 0.8.0, raw2ome-tiff released 
    - Glencoe away from week of 25th - 3rd Jan

- Community
    - Petr: EastBio outreach today 4pm. Postdoc
    - Poster session here yesterday and today: good interest.
        - questions about license 
    - Jason: Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia using OMERO for pathology training.
        - New RHEL9 server, migrating data from demo server

## AOB

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

- readthedocs now ad-free. 

## Main Topici

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
