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tags: Tuesday
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# 2020-11-24

## Attending:
- Will, Petr, Josh, Jason, Simon, Wilma, David, Erin, Chris, Melissa, Kevin, Emil,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

## Accepting minutes from [<u>last meeting</u>](https://github.com/ome/meeting-minutes)

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR
- Jason: several interesting new studies coming in
- e.g. In-situ gene sequencing

- NGFF
- ZarrReader - branches: not PRs yet
- https://github.com/dgault/ZarrReader/tree/prototype
- https://github.com/dgault/jzarr/tree/ome-zarr
- Josh: testing locally. jzarr hard
- Looking for Java support for I2K next week
- HCS: solidifying & some workflow additions
- To propose or not to propose
- Few outstanding ome-zarr-py / omero-cli-py PRs
- [New spec home](https://ngff.openmicroscopy.org/latest)
- New home of the spec
- Some migration still needed, along with redirects
- Feedback, comments concerns welcome
- I2K update
- Working through the program - Call with Tischi this morning
- Time-slot & attendees
- Intro, demos Java/Python/JavaScript (2 hours)
- Then workshops in breakout rooms
- Seb: If you're going to talk about HCS, need refs/spec solid.
- Josh: would be good to merge Draga's contribution: code and spec
- Jason: 4 hours is long. Good to have break at 2 hours
- Microscopy Australia
- Interesting in running an NGFF demonstrator in the new year. (Conceivably EM)

- Releases
- Seb: Contributions from Glencoe going in
- Tabular Data with ROIs - Good to see use cases/workflows
- Josh: Python 3.9 now supported (needed for Mac Big Sur). Packages on conda

- SA

- Glencoe
- Chris - see above
- Interested to hear David's experience of jzarr

- Community
- OMERO workshop on Monday and Wednesday I2K 4 hours.
- NGFF workshops x2 on Wednesday
- McGill workshop 1hr - starting after this meeting
- Seb: promoting on the website? Petr: will add retroactively.
- JRS: good conversation with CMU-4DN. Dec 3rd-5th will be a consortium wide introduction. Starting data conversations (where, what)
- Josh: Can see a path forward re: spatial indexes of n-d arrays
- JRS: writing project spec for Sanger work

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)