Agenda - 2:30pm Start

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

   • accepted

2. Mozfest report (Will, Petr) - 14:30 UK

   • See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D0OEkaXb1YPuzZpz4O3ZuNaqkfmXzna7D0w6K6wMO_s/edit
   • Meeting URL
   • OME Presentation
   • Timelapse big images http://timemachine.gigapan.org/wiki/Earthenginetoureditor
     • partnership with Google, precompiled mpegs for every tile
   • DAPI jpg stack (from Batch_Image_Export) 3D viewer (for galaxies) http://kapadia.github.io/dna-stain-volume/
     • JavaScript 3D viewer, showing DNA stain with high dynamic range
       • stacks exported from OMERO
   • Colocalisation plots http://will-moore.github.io/moz-fest-science-viz/colocalisation.html
     • handles large scatter plots with many points with good performance
       • points can be pixels, with axes being intensity per channel
     • Roger: see how flow cytometry results are presented
     • Will: a challenge is getting all the data to the client
   • Petr:
     • open notebook discussion with thread; everything public immediately
     • how to detect good code www.software.ac.uk
   • Jean-Marie: Was it worth going?
     • Will: Yes, though took too much time in preparing talk.

3. Open Access Edinburgh Mtg (Helen) - 14:50 UK

   • Program
   • Part 1
   • Part 2
   • mostly open-access publishing
   • lady from Faculty 1000 research journal
     • publishing some papers with raw data
       • currently doing tables
       • looking to do images
   • guy from Peer J encouraged open data standards
   • Jason: people wanting open data publication not necessarily those producing it

4. Glencoe Update (Jason, Chris) - 14:55 UK

   • 7th HC screen published
   • searching and tagging will reach mainline code at some point
     • Sam’s tagging stuff now merged
   • working through PRs from Andreas
   • Sam’s caching work coming

5. Project next steps (Jason) - 14:59 UK

   • Priorities List on Trello
   • adapts initial work by Josh
   • for managing the project, understanding the backlog
   • understands that there is a cost to introducing yet another tool
   • cards organized into themes
   • cards represent significantly varying levels of effort
   • represent users’ and funders’ perspectives, more than technical
   • will be reporting status next March
   • also, next users’ meeting is a target date
   • highlights embarrassing things that really ought to be now fixed
   • could divide project up into lanes, or have many people work on the same card
   • need to include where consortium members’ projects are going
     • especially where they depend on work on OMERO
   • input is encouraged and welcomed
   • would like to get the trello board fairly completely populated by the end of this week
     • then can prioritize and plan the work for the next six months to a year
   • high level: don’t need to include detail down to the level of individual Trac tasks
   • feel free to add cards, they can be moved or merged with existing ones if need be

6. Upcoming meetings/conferences/outreach visits - 15:12 UK

   • Aberdeen microscopy meeting & Dundee Big Data meeting mentioned last week, anything else upcoming?
   • upcoming meetings listed in Google Drive spreadsheet
   • do speak up about meetings where our attendance might have some value
     • preferably meetings we can present at, and will need enough lead time to do so

7. Any other business (<5 mins) - 15:15 UK

   • SAB demo movies going up on downloads.openmicroscopy.org/presentations/2013/
     • still awaiting a couple
     • link will be going up on the website
   • Jabber chat rooms
     • Jason: many, smaller chat rooms mean that people might miss out on important conversations
     • Ola, Kenny: conversations can be quite irrelevant to quite a few people
     • Simon: would help if people knew which chat rooms were available
     • Roger: put off asking questions if devteam is consumed in some other long discussion
     • Roger: may be okay to have a fixed number of well-known chat rooms on specific topics
     • Josh: Adium makes it harder to discover chat rooms and activity in them
     • Andrew: what about searchable logs?
     • Kenny: Jabber server at Dundee is old and probably needs to be replaced
     • Jason: decision is to have fixed rooms, logged, aggregated activity metrics
     • Josh: would be useful to be able to mention things to people in chat rooms and have them easily discover this mention when they come in later and connect
     • Jason: will also look into Jabber server at Dundee
     • Roger: just use IRC on freenode and a logging bot?
   • Time off/sickness emails to nitpick
     • Jason: do they cause people to ignore nitpick?
     • not obviously so
     • June starting on November 4th, such matters will go through her
   • GRE symposium poster (registration by Nov 1st). Suggested title:
     • "Working with OMERO"
     • "OMERO in actions"
     • "What’s new in OMERO - Sharing, Publishing and Analysing Your Image Data"
     • "Sharing, Publishing and Analysing Your Image Data with OMERO"
     • “We’ll show you ours if you’ll show us yours”
     • other.
     • Will will submit poster registration
   • New hires +Feb 1 (re-mention)
     • Dominik
     • Balaji

Done 15:38 UK