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tags: Tuesday
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# 2023-07-11

Attending: Will, David, June, Dom, Frances, Richard, Melissa, Kyle, Tom, Jason, Maadhav, David S, Kevin, Chris, Erin

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):
- preparing for next release (prod117): idr0119 early next week
- Next release (prod118) in August
- Then prep for software upgrade NGFF
- Will: NGFF conversion in progress or done for most studies. Few outstanding - will try to guage timeline

- OMERO
- omero-py TLS cleanup. Setting up test environments to test SSL etc on various platforms
- Django 4.2 PR ready for review. Will to review this week

- Bio-Formats
- 6.14.0 release last week - deprecation warnings
- Actual deprecations in 7.0.0 release. Aim to release first week of August
- ZarrReader focus next few days - fixes and Fiji update site

- NGFF

- GerBI (Tom)
- omero webtagging: split into 2 new repos, deprecating old repo, Pypi updates etc.

- Glencoe (Chris)
- see above omero/web. Prep for new Linux distributions etc.
- microservices - removing support for older OMERO versions
- using JSON for sessions instead of pickling
- improve reuse e.g. by searchengine
- Erin: [NGFF-converter released with latest bioformats2raw](https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2023/07/10/whats-new-in-ngff-converter-1-1-5.html)
- Jason: mention on image.sc?

- Community
- HDBI (Richard)
- Host OMERO server in Newcastle
- Petr and Jean-Marie in Kobe

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)