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)
         • CMSO mulitmot - coupling imaging and analytical data
         • Followup - get experimental metadata files.
         • BF- external PR from mpi. Reader addition
         • OME-Files - Oxford user consuming OME files
         • Minor release soon with features requested by community
         • Timeline not set yet, before Dundee meeting would be nice
         • JM: meeting workshop on OME-Files?
         • Jason: modalities and complexities of imaging acquisition increased a lot since start of OME project.
      2. Metadata (Eleanor)
         • IDR meeting last week
         • Submissions: biostudies submission portal. Met with biostudies.
         • Analysis: use-cases discussed, good progress
         • Working on two datasets, idr0026 (immunotherapy) and idr0034 (HipSci)
         • Release scheduled for next week with idr0026, annotation updates and update deployment with a separate web user
         • Next months work
           • More datasets.
           • Working with BioStudies so they can receive imaging submissions
           • Upgrade to jupyter to allow whitelisting users
           • Ola - upgrade the version of OMERO used in IDR to 5.3.0
           • Simon - calculating WND-CHARM features on more datasets
           • Proteasome analysis.
           • Preparing presentation for users’ meeting.
      3. OMERO 5.3.1
         • 5.3.0 Release last week.
         • Looking to port useful IDR features back into mainline. Thumbnailing etc.
         • Matlab (Balaji) and R (Dominik) for analysis - Users’ meeting prep
         • Moving more functionality to OMERO gateway - SPW features
         • Jason: showing workflows using full stack, using IDR / big data
         • Part of improving data-in, data-out, data-download “the straw”
         • Weekly analysis meeting starting on Friday
         • JM: web apps pip installable -> Douglas doing same for webtagging
      4. Outreach
         • Josh at Janelia
         • Simon and Kenny going to Ansible meeting

   2. Other releases/upgrades:

      1. Figure
         • Updating release board for using Pypi
         • Looking to release on 17th April
      2. Iviewer
         • Working on ROI permissions
         • Will: Adding ROI support to JSON API
         • Aim to release first week of May
      3. new website
         • Started weekly meetings on Mondays
         • Updating layout of OMERO section
         • Currently deploying via github pages to build & host jekyll site
         • JM: will eventually migrate figure.openmicroscopy.org into new site.
         • Helen: more content work in progress
      4. Sysadmin (current board and recent PRs)
         • Kenny: separate web VM for 5.3.0 on nightshade
         • Need to setup SSL for logins etc.≠
         • School need to update to latest Insight before server upgrade
         • Specs and deployment firmed up for new nightshade on RHEL 7 VM.
      5. Glencoe Update (Chris)
         • Pathviewer webinar at end of month
         • 5.3.0 investigation for pathviewer
         • Horizontal scaling with Douglas etal
      6. Mtools testing and new build needed for nightshade upgrade

   3. User meeting update

      • Workshop schedules on gdocs
      • Some external workshops
      • Tricky to organise 3 sessions]
      • Finish with “free-for-all” depending on demand

3. Reverse OSAR (30-60 mins)

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