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# 2025-08-19

Attending: Will, Dom, Josh, Frances, Khaled, Jean-Marie, Andreas, Seb, Kyle, Petr, Melissa, Emil, 

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):
    - Testing a few zarr submissions ahead of next release planning

- OMERO
    -  Andreas: OMERO.web release: https://www.openmicroscopy.org/2025/08/13/omero-web-5.29.2.html
    -  JM: ansible update to support latest version for idr deployment and omero-test-infra. Need to work with python 3.12.
    -  Django 5 update (Andreas). Need to change default pickle option

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
    - working on docs and 8.4.0
    - Need discussion on how to manage image.sc tracking
        - Josh: image.sc assignment a pain to use

- NGFF
    - TechDev (Will)
      - Import (`register.py`): Create a Fileset and import .zarr/OME/METADATA.ome.xml if it exists: [omero-import-utils #23](https://github.com/BioNGFF/omero-import-utils/pull/23) (Will)
      - BioFile Finder: searchengine loading up to 2 million images to BFF (Khaled). Will: on idr-testing, loaded idr0016 (900k images, 5 mins) but BFF failing to expand groups (Group by Compound Name)
          - JM: feedback to BFF team
      - Python: ome-zarr-py `0.12.0` released (zarr v3 and OME-Zarr v0.5). Getting feedback from users: e.g [PR #474](https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/pull/474) to be `0.12.1`. Also  https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/issues/477 problem is less clear
          - omero-cli-zarr update to zarr v3 requires omero-test-infra update (see above)
    - Specs (Josh)
      - RFC-2: Johannes is looking at the dangling versions in https://github.com/ome/ngff/issues/322
      - RFC-5: Holding pattern
      - ZEP10: late night AU-US-EU meeting on Wednesday
    - Misc
      - Norman will be joinined the next formats meeting
      - Working on CoRDI poster (NGFF challenge): https://zenodo.org/records/16735915
      - Finished interviewing for OME-Zarr position(s)

- GerBI

- Glencoe (Seb):
    - Updating OMERO-plus with various web and other updates
    - Testing OME's contribution to omero-zarr-pixel-buffer with <5D support. Working on bf2raw to generate <5D sample data - https://github.com/glencoesoftware/bioformats2raw/pull/279 
    - Erin: thanks for feedback on website logo update

- Community
    - Prague outreach planning (early stages)

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
