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tags: Tuesday
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# 2025-01-21

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

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:
- NFDI data stewards meeting on Friday to demo import process and highlight validation issues etc.
- idr0159 preparing for next release. Start import next week.

- OMERO
- LUTs: - PR open https://github.com/ome/omero-web/pull/603
- VPN access to various machines at UoD. Looking good (but need to use IP addresses for some machines)
- Andreas: some prep work started for next release

- Bio-Formats: Melissa
- Discussed response to new reader offer

- NGFF
- Zarr status
- zarr-python 3.0.1+
- Some issues using this with Zarr v2?
- spec corrections: mostly naming and extensions need clarification
- RFC status
- RFC-5: transforms. Target OME 2025 meeting?
- Jason: why not earlier?
- RFC-4: anatomical coordinates. Good progress.
- RFC-3: more dimensions and any order - loosening of spec
- upcoming: RFC-6 (multiscales) and RFC-7? (channels metadata, not rendering)
- Targets
- ASAP: 0.5 release announcement (soft release end of last year). 0.6 to follow "soon".
- May (OME2025): transforms
- ... Roadmap ...
- ~December: 1.0
- Community meetings (monthly), etc.
- Jason: RFC process: how many reviews and how do you make decisions based on reviews?
- Josh: No hard rules. "sufficient" reviews
- Jason: nice to avoid paper review scenario where editor has no opinion/expertise. Not a simple democracy / voting.

- GerBI
- hiring for NGFF position
- N4BI Repository challenge (Feb-June)
- Compare submission process to different repositories
- Trends in Microscopy (March 17-21)
- CytoData Berlin (Sep 17-21) - Get data into OME-Zarr before the meeting
- TF Metadata: DCAT, [EHDS](https://health.ec.europa.eu/ehealth-digital-health-and-care/european-health-data-space_en) and schema services

- Glencoe
- Chris: thanks for help with security announcement

- Community
- 27th Jan: OME-NGFF Consortium Kickoff Meeting [Draft Agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yz8rIgbFoAfampZKbtjZ3uBsVgyWgGJ7gH_8AUrq0HI/edit?tab=t.0). Will ask for feedback soon
- Karolinska workshop 12th Feb
- 23rd Jan - GBI outreach planning with Gleb

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)