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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)
