Agenda - 2:00pm Start

1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

2. Project Timelines (2-3 minutes each)

   1. Spaces

      1. Files/Formats/OME Files (Sebastien)

         1. OME Files 0.3.0
            • Seb: Just out the door.
              • Next steps: start using/consuming this, benchmarking for paper revision.
              • C++ implementation way better than Jace for real/large data
              • Couple of fixes to come
         2. Bio-Formats 5.3.4
            • Just integrated PR fixing regression
            • Early next week for release planned, then moving on patch releases
            • Discussions to come re: tidying, Big-images and tiling

      2. Metadata (Eleanor)

         • IDR demo33 release - annotation fixes
           • fixing annotation bugs mainly (changing annotations for mapr, update, delete)
         • Paper reviews back
         • Next IDR release - more datasets, new Embassy cloud set up
           • Waiting to hear back from EBI - setup ongoing
         • Plans for more analysis - genes related to proteasome (~30 genes) - analysis of existing phenotypes and looking at features from images related to these genes.
           • Jason: Trying to exercise the datasets in the IDR
         • Simon: Sysadmin docs for IDR being written, linked from paper

      3. OMERO 5.3.0 (J-M)

         1. 5.3.0-m8 available
            • out today, to test release workflow (pdfs etc)
            • web API change (support for well)
            • Bio-Formats 5.3.3 (not 5.3.4) -
         2. doc work ongoing
            • can people look at unattached cards and join cards if they can
            • ice 3.6 will be default, so docs to clean/update ice 3.5 references
         3. New Roles (Mark)
            • preventing privilege elevation in user management turning out to be difficult
              • made progress but will probably take this week too to get that working
            • Will started work on webadmin side
            • Will has created new UI, PR open (light-admins)
              • Helen: Can we document it now?
              • Mark: Probably, though perhaps not screenshots.
              • Petr: ppt and card explains all the permissions
              • JM: same for change ownership
            • Balaji has created some videos for import and import-as from the CLI, will be useful for facility managers. To be published.

      4. Outreach

         • Josh at neubias (Lisbon)
         • ELMI coming up. Workshop? (Dubrovnik) 23-26 May
           • Petr: Last meeting was useful - lots of interest
           • Seb: Overlap with user meeting (31 May-01 June)
         • (Cambridge workshops end of June)

   2. Other releases/upgrades:

      1. Figure
      2. Iviewer
         • Some PRs open, ROI workflows improving, daily cowfish deployments
      3. Sysadmin
         • SLS infra issues

   3. Glencoe Update (Chris)

      • Big focus at the moment are RO and scalability issues
      • PathViewer bugfix releases

   4. #POTN Users Meeting (Jason)

      1. Workshops: expect same format.
         • Lightning talks (morning), Invited (afternoon)
         • Thoughts appreciated on format of workshops

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