Dundee: Dominik, Gus, Ola, Will, Petr, Simone, Balaji, June, Jean-Marie, Simon,

Remote: Josh, Seb, Colin, Kenny, Kelli, Eleanor, Melissa, Andreas, Curtis, Ian, Helen, Chris

Agenda - 2:30pm Start

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)

   1. OMERO

      1. 5.2.1 (J-m)
         • Thanks for testing yesterday. Looking good.
         • Some progress on Windows
         • RC2 built just now (done)
         • Hopefully acceptance tomorrow
         • Release Help updates ready now - new Facility Manager section for few days later
      2. Metadata (Josh)
         • Prototype before end of Jan (https://trello.com/c/9aEYto1f/137-table-import-prototype)
         • Demo to team then

   2. Bio-Formats

      1. 5.2.0 (Sebastien)
         • Seb: Not much to report - Will ramp up again in new year.
         • Early Jan (7th) - meeting to discuss 5.2. board
         • No plan for 5.1.8, but may backport some fixes from 5.2. if needed

   3. Other releases/upgrades:

      1. Figure

         • Not working on currently. Planning workshop in mid Jan.

      2. FLIMfit/OPT (Ian)

         • FLIMfit - trying to get new reader into BF 5.2.
         • Superresolution - updating interface to OMERO to work with 5.2.

      3. IDR Project

         • One script left to run from Simon, before “shutting down” for the holidays

      4. ImageJ

         • Curtis: last 2 weeks on IJ ops - hackathon in Jan
         • Pushing Java8. IJ ops users likely to be using Java8.
         • Some issues on Java8. Brittle - tricky to be backwards compatible with older Java

      5. Learning

         • Plan to upgrade in Jan

      6. Sysadmin

         • Kenny:
         • VSI user e-mailed - previously imported files not working.
         • Need to notify users on potentially breaking changes to readers with major releases.
         • JM: Blog post for nightshade?

      7. mtools (late addition)

         • Seb will do it?

   4. Glencoe Update (Chris) - Nothing to report - expanding marshalling to other container types - Discussions with Josh on loading data etc - Pathviewer will be deployed here soon

3. AOB (5 mins max - technical discussions should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

   • Today is last meeting before Christmas.
   • Back on 5th - next meeting is on 12th.
   • Colin submitted abstract to Astronomy meeting (very large images)
   • David: ROI meeting with PDB - working group setup Jason, David