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tags: Tuesday
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# 2025-11-25

Attending: Petr, Chris, Joel Luthi, Damien (GerBI), Dom, Erin, Seb, Kevin, Tom, Jean-Marie, Andreas, Melissa, Tiago, Khaled, David, Kyle,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

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

## Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

- New dev: Damien Goutte-Gattat GerBI, OME-Zarr
- Also joining: Joel, BioVisionCenter, Zurich
- Tiago: GerBI, remote from Brazil

- IDR:
- Petr: IDR migration: we have VMs provided.
- JM: IDR released last Thursday with 2 new datasets.
- Dom: Freezing submissions new submission

- OMERO (Andreas)
- OMERO.[]()web 5.29.3 released
- Planning on 5.30.0 with Django 5.2 updates very soon
- Seb: OMERO.server release not before 2026
- Will include Bio-Formats 8.4.0 released then
- JM: Docker images (omero-server and omero-web) are now using Python 3.12 (Petr & Khaled). Ansible roles have been published
- next steps: updating the testing infrastructure

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- Next release in January

- NGFF
- Will: New https://github.com/TissUUmaps/OMEZarrTileSource for OpenSeadragon created by Jonas Windhager (based on my Zurich hackathon code using ome-zarr.js)
- Joel: Zurich Hackathon 50 developers 2 weeks ago. Lots of work in various areas: Web-site, Collections, RFCs etc. See [details on the hackathon page ](https://biovisioncenter.notion.site/2025-OME-NGFF-Workflows-Hackathon-25662fc04eb38148885ec0fee3ff8539)
- [BlueSky pictures](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r53bhyptu4v4cmg3ebsc7c5r/post/3m5tcy7544s2l)

- GerBI
- Tom: next week Hackathon in Walsrode, Germany. 17 developers, focus on OMERO.[]()web and other plugins. Encourage contributions from new devs etc. ([links related to the hackathon](https://github.com/German-BioImaging/ome-zarr-ideas/issues/35))

- Glencoe
- Seb: OME-TIFF spec [minor change proposed](https://github.com/ome/ome-model-documentation/pull/7). Will post on image.sc later today.
- Erin: reminder https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2025/11/06/ngff-roadmap-2026.html

- Community
- Petr: Outreach in Brno next week. Installation etc.
- Will & JM (and Tom) to hackathon (see above)

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)