---
tags: Tuesday
---

# 2026-01-06

Attending: Will, Dom, Frances, Petr, Jean-Marie, Andreas, Seb, Chris, Joel, Damien, Khaled, Kyle, Melissa, David, Johannes

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)
- working on idr0167 and idr0171 for next release
- plan to add BioFile Finder to next release
- Dom: working on Ansible playbooks for migration of IDR to Dundee infrastructure

- OMERO
- Andreas: OMERO<span/>.web 5.30.1 upcoming release
- https://github.com/ome/omero-web/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A5.30.1 for tomorrow morning unless objections?
- Seb: OMERO.server
- Working on build infrastructure to reduce load on OME Artifactory - monitor over next couple of weeks
- Ongoing issue affecting GitHub workflows trying to access Maven Central - https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/183607
- Roadmap towards OMERO 5.6.17 release (February timeline)
- Bio-Formats 8.4.0
- OMERO.py 5.22.0 with Python 3.10+ minimum version
- OMERO.web 5.30.1 or 5.31.0 (Django 5.2 LTS)
- OMERO.scripts 5.10.0
- OMERO PR review call scheduled on January 27 (1pm GMT)
- Will: OMERO.figure 7.3.0 released yesterday

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- 8.4.0 planned for release next week
- Then shift to longer term planning. OME Schema discussion on 19th

- NGFF
- Johannes: RFC-5 review deadline at end of the week.
- Few remaining questions for Will
- Johannes: Any other "small things" to consider for v0.6 TBD, e.g. spec text. Will announce on image.sc
- Joel: we're adding OME-Zarr v0.5 support to [ngio](https://github.com/BioVisionCenter/ngio) before OME-Zarr v0.6 is released

- GerBI
- Damien: discussing Biological Imaging Ontology maintenance

- Glencoe (Chris/Erin)
- Happy New Year!

- Community
- Karolinska outreach planning. May upgrade figure.

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)