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tags: Tuesday
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# 2025-06-10

Attending: Will, Petr, Frances, Dom, JM, Andreas, Seb, Josh, Kyle, Khaled, Melissa, Chris, Erin, Kevin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

## Accepting minutes from [last meeting](https://hackmd.io/team/ome?nav=overview)

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- IDR (Frances):
- prod128 ongoing. idr0151 drosophilia, and maybe one other.
- New searchengine with support for partial reindexing
- Will include study landing pages
- Also omero-zarr-pixel-buffer deployment

- OMERO (Seb)
- OMERO.server Java components
- Merging https://github.com/ome/omero-server/pull/195 tomorrow barring objections by EOB
- Releasing omero-server, omero-blitz and omero-gateway-java this week
- Next: security tests run somewhere, OMERO release (TBD after JM and Petr back after next week)?
- OMERO.web: no updates today
- JM: started using GitHub UI tools for release: creates changelog for the release with PRs, contributors etc.

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- 8.3.0 fixes in progress. Timeline TBD.

- NGFF
- Josh
- ELMI:
- "FAIR" can go too far
- Vendors "C++ implementation?"
- Webinars
- TARA (HCS in IDR)/TREK (not HCS)
- OMERO/Zarr (from standup):
- Dom: 3d and 4d zarr now working with [#19](https://github.com/glencoesoftware/omero-zarr-pixel-buffer/pull/19) (omero-zarr-pixel-buffer), 2d works now too. Also still need integration tests for the PR.
- JM: Working on non-AWS, [#24](https://github.com/glencoesoftware/omero-zarr-pixel-buffer/pull/24) for pixel-buffer; and “register” image script .
- Meeting with GS team week starting 23/06.
- Dom will work on similar “register” script for plate.
- Will: what’s the plan for Glencoe labels?
- ome-zarr-py: Will: Investigating [zarr v2 and v3 potential clashes](https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/pull/413#issuecomment-2949764985). Any feedback appreciated!

- GerBI (Josh)
- setting up a central OMERO with signups, cleanup etc as in demo server. Do we need better docs, advice?
- Cleanup policy likely to be a mix of "demo" and "nightshade" behaviours.
- How to warn users that particular data is at risk of being deleted (Trash can)?
- Petr: [demo server playbooks](https://github.com/ome/prod-playbooks). We have seen big increase in demo sign-ups.

- Glencoe (Chris)

- Community
- Petr: ELMI last week. Big meeting. 3 workshops and Q & A discussion well attended. OME T-shirts a big hit! Good discussions with Vendors.
- India trip next week: Pune. JM & Petr.

## AOB

(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)