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# 2025-05-06

Attending: Will, Petr, Josh, JM, Jason, Chris, Andreas, Seb, David, Khaled, Frances, Kyle, Erin, Kevin, 

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):
    - final stages of prod127 release planned for Thursday this week

- OMERO
    - Seb: OMERO.server [dependencies upgrade](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HBFt_OHt5qz5PisR-0vXH0AidJ-YPw513NNeBUJT-iM/edit?gid=0#gid=0) will start opening PRs from this, based on customer security scan
    - Good chance for others to get involved in components release
    - Good idea to enable github security / deps scan? JM: yes, agreed
    - Josh: I get GitHub security alert digest: see https://github.com/settings/notifications
        - Jason: Threshold for concern?

- Bio-Formats
    - Tests running again.
    - Plan BF 8.9.2 release in May. Need to decide on what goes in.

- NGFF (Josh)
  - 1.0 Discussions at Woods Hole OME2025 meeting last week.
  - other RFCs:
    - transforms
    - channels
    - collections (Norman)
  - Next major steps for Zarr? Steering council meeting on Thursday. Feedback/suggestions welcome

- GerBI
  - ELMI presence (community room, vendors, etc.)
  - MiFoBio interest in on-site OMERO (as for TIM)
    - J-M: contacted Julio in January, reduced size and more restrictive this year if attending
  - RSpace interest. Rspace now open-source
  - Others interested in Hardware provision

- Glencoe (Chris)
  - Django 5.2 released in April. We have 11 months before deprecation of 4.2 series. Upgrade shouldn't cause too many issues.
      - https://endoflife.date/django
      - Python 3.13 support needed - a few little update issues we need to address
  - Erin: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20273/presentation/3538 

- Community
    - Jason: OME2025 meeting went well. Good to see everyone
    - Update on BINA OME2025 Meeting and Hackathon
        - [Internal Notes and Comments](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MGi7i7ADTwXlzMlknn0LE29ITWCxyLQNfRJ6Toy5AL4/edit?tab=t.0)
        - Ongoing discussion

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
