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tags: Tuesday
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# 2025-08-12

Attending: Will, Petr, Josh, Jason, Khaled, Frances, Seb, Kevin, Melissa, Tom, Kyle, Chris, Andreas,

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):
- released prod129 last week with idr0170: OME-Zarr converted by submitter. First usage of omero-zarr-pixel-buffer. Also using BioFile Finder to provide access to s3 URLs. Posted on bsky. TODO: post on LinkedIn

- OMERO (Andreas)
- OMERO.web security release prepared for tomorrow 1pm

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- 8.3.0 released, prep 8.4.0 started

- NGFF
- Will
- BioNGFF: omero-import-utils: [import OME/METADATA.ome.xml](https://github.com/BioNGFF/omero-import-utils/pull/23)
- - In progress: moving register.py to omero-cli-zarr so we can add integration tests etc.
- testing searchengine [cotainer_bff_data](https://github.com/ome/omero_search_engine/pull/113#issuecomment-3158181883) - reported at https://github.com/ome/omero_search_engine/pull/114#issuecomment-3174141682 - Load ALL images from an IDR study into BioFile Finder from searchengine. 300k images is OK, 900k times-out
- Jason: Is 500k an acceptable compromise?
- ome-zarr-py RC last week: https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/releases/tag/v0.12rc1 with OME-Zarr v0.5 support
- Josh
- RFC-4 (orientation): response submitted; approved by Juan
- RFC-5 (transforms): plan for 0.6.dev2
- Johannes to start work on schema & spec
- SpatialData transforms: https://github.com/BioImageTools/ngff-transformations
- ZEP10 (extensions) Lachlan Deacon: approaching concensus
- Zarr Summit in Rome: https://github.com/zarr-developers/community/issues/74 Oct 13-17
- Attendees etc. Josh attending https://github.com/cloudnativegeo/community-events/issues/9
- Feature flag in ngff-zarr to support e.g. transforms etc. We may want to do something similiar

- GerBI
- Josh: interviews this week
- Tom: attending MiFoBio in France, to present
- https://imabio-cnrs.fr/introduction-to-mifobio2025/

- Glencoe (Chris)
- OMERO logo PR: https://github.com/ome/www.openmicroscopy.org/pull/813 Approved - ready to merge? Will to look
- omero-py cleanup, SSL upgrade etc
- Chris away for 2 weeks tomorrow

- Community

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)