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# 2024-11-12

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

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:
- Preparing for NFDI data stewards meeting tomorrow morning 8am
- idr-testing is back up with latests DB. Testing search with updated Antibody KVPs.

- OMERO
- Java Oracle email UoD: implication on software stack. Please check and remove.
- See also https://github.com/ome/omero-artifact-plugin/pull/25. Already jumped from Java 8 to Java 11. More will need a gradle upgrade.
- omero-web 5.28.0 release ready to go when suitable. JM: let's aim for early next week (Tues) - also release openmicroscopy following BF release this week (see below)

- Bio-Formats
- Melissa: 8.0.1 - all PRs in Milestone have been merged. Ready to pick a date. Could be Thursday this week.
- JM: yes, Thursday
- Reviewing items for 8.1.0, including 1 external contribution

- NGFF
- I2K/GBI/FoundingGIDE: challenge well received. Lots of enthusiasm. Number of groups want to get involved.
- Offers of new data
- Keeping data around
- In need of a **roadmap** (perhaps as an RFC), e.g.,
- 0.5: Zarr v3
- 0.6: transforms
- 0.7: RO-Crate?
- ... 1.0/2.0/LTS/etc.
- Vendors interested in support etc.
- [Hackathon](https://biovisioncenter.notion.site/OME-NGFF-Workflows-Hackathon-2024-dde32a032adf49b4a53b4b014586b678) next week. Focus on Java, Python, and Workflows though multimodality perhaps as a unifying topic.
- Seb: community call before end of year? Josh: yes, we have offers to run calls
- J-M: useful to have the challenge data in March
- Will: looking to update ome-zarr-py. found one issue in zarr-python. https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/pull/2480

- GerBI
- Josh: NFDI4BIOIMAGE project to compare and document repository submissions. E.g. Zenodo AND BIA etc.

- Glencoe
- Erin: heading to CBIAS (Crick) last week of November

- Community
- OMERO workshop in Japan went fine, see https://x.com/openmicroscopy/status/1853634849078460860
- OMERO workshop in Brno in preparation. 1-day workshop on 6th December

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)