OME Consortium User's Meeting — Programme

Location: Le Meditel Club, 28 boulevard Pasteur, 75015 Paris

Hosted by Spencer Shorte, Institut Pasteur

Organized by Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee

For registration information, contact Ms Christiane Pacaud (chrispac at pasteur dot fr)

Day 1 — 29th March 2007

09:00 - 09:30Arrival
09:30 - 09:45Welcome — Spencer Shorte
09:45 - 10:30OME/OMERO: An Update on Current Status and Future Goals — Jason Swedlow
10:30 - 10:50Pause Café
10:50 - 11:25Bio-Formats and OME-TIFF — Curtis Rueden
11:25 - 12:00Usable Image and OME — Catriona Macaulay
12:00 - 12:35Open-source Cell Image Analysis and Data Visualization - Integration with OME? — Anne Carpenter
12:35 - 14:00Lunch and Discussion
14:35 - 15:10The Economics of Interface Standards — Patrick Courtney
15:10 - 15:45What do the Imagopole users need at Institut Pasteur? — Anne Danckaert/Mathieu Marchand
15:45 - 16:20Other presentation (looking for one more group that has experience with OME/OMERO) or other informatics — what do users need?
16:20 - 16:40Pause Café
16:40 - 17:30Definition of tasks for the remainder of meeting, assigning groups
17:30 onwardsPreliminary Group Meetings

Day 2 — 30th March 2007

09:00 - 09:30Arrival
09:30 - 09:45Welcome, Admin and Summary of Goals
09:45 - 12:30Group Discussions —

OMERO Taster: Run by our Usable Image team, these will show people the OMERO System as it stands

Install Clinics: These will be informal, but we will have a sign up sheet allowing people to see an install, and if they have access to their servers back home, get it installed there (wireless access is in the room).

Analysis Groups: A discussion group defining use cases for image analysis, in concert with an OME or OMERO Server.

File formats, OME-TIFF, and Bio-Formats: Discussions and process on standardised file formats.

12:30 - 14:00Lunch and Discussion
14:00 - 15:00Group Discussions — continued
15:00 - 16:00Group Summary and Task Definition
16:00 - 17:00Summing Up