---
# System prepended metadata

title: '2023-08-08'
tags: [Tuesday]

---

---
tags: Tuesday
---

# 2023-08-08

Attending: Will, June, Josh, Frances, Jason, Dom, Melissa, Kevin, Maadhav, Andreas, Tom, Emil, 

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):
    - Dom has imported idr0139 into idr-next
    - idr0149 may be squeezed in to this release
    - IDR home page now links to OME-NGFF samples
    - NGFF (Will)
      - Down to converting the last few studies
      - Testing "mkngff" scripts for expedited imports
      - Then will get S3 data active in OMERO/IDR (:tada:)
      - Few questions for the BIA team.

- OMERO (Andreas)
    - couple of performance issues - 1 draft PR open (scripts)
    - Note Updates from Chris on SSL etc: https://forum.image.sc/t/omero-login-ssl-error-dh-key/79574/17

- Bio-Formats
    - 7.0.0 relased last week.
    - Melissa looking at backlog issues on github

- NGFF
  - SciPy (Austin, TX)
    - Good to talk to people IRL
    - Blosc
    - ITK's "ngff-zarr" - happy to contribute to ome-zarr-py
    - "NGST!"
  - GRC (California)
    - very on board with OME-Zarr
    - Transforms presentation: approved - GFI
    - Companies
    - Vector images
  - Next steps
    - [Zarr V3](https://github.com/ome/ngff/issues/206)
        - zarr reader (pip installalbe, ScalableMinds)
        - zarr-python in progress, benchmarking etc.
    - [Orientation](https://github.com/ome/ngff/pull/208)
    - Other requests - next features?

- GerBI (Tom)
  - webtagging plugins working with Django 4.2 looking good for release soon 

- Glencoe
  - Kevin: OMERO Blitz ProcessContainer issues - new PC-steward tool to clean-up
  - Emil: batchROI export script bug: fails with annotations on ROIs. 

- Community
  - CZI Imaging: OME-NGFF everywhere!
    - large international meeting ~250 - lots of projects
    - structured breakouts: large datasets ("use OME-NGFF")
      - JRS: "only use OME-NGFF for suitable use-cases"
  - Training at McGill and Univ Arizona (JM and PW)

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)

* Hibernate fun as a follow-on: https://github.com/ome/omero-blitz/issues/144 - Visitor pattern to filter omero.model objects
