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tags: Tuesday
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# 2025-08-05

Attending: Will, Josh, Jean-Marie, Dom, Frances, Khaled, Petr, Jason, Seb, Andreas, Kevin, Erin, Chris, 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):
- prod129 released tomorrow with idr0170 Mass cytometry, mouse data, 37 channels. First use of omero-zarr-pixel-buffer.

- OMERO (Andreas)
- posted OMERO.web security release announcement: https://forum.image.sc/t/action-required-critical-security-release-of-omero-web-coming-august-13th/115402

- Bio-Formats (Seb)
- Bio-Formats 8.3.0 release
- All components now released incl. artifacts, documentations. Fiji updated
- Next step: announcement (OME website & image.sc & LinkedIn & BlueSky)
- JM: www.openmicroscopy PR green. Can merge

- NGFF
- General (Josh)
- Johannes Soltwedel (jo-mueller) started at GerBI/ome
- Matt McCormick and ngff-zarr: migrating to [Fideus](https://fideus.io/). HCS now supported. v0.5 spec in progress.
- Repo ([schemas](https://ngff.openmicroscopy.org/0.5/schemas/image.html) etc.)
- Formats meeting per month - propose last Monday of each month to cover OME-zarr. Norman for August.
- An additional LTS? Do we need something intermediate before 1.0?
- Chris: LTS for zarr itself?
- Zarr ZEP10 - return focus
- Chris: we are thinking about urls to specify zarr storage specs
- Josh: e.g. https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-python/issues/2943
- BioNGFF (Will):
- BioFile Finder to display IDR searchengine results: https://github.com/IDR/idr-gallery/pull/51 and https://github.com/ome/omero_search_engine/pull/114
- Deployed at [IDR Testing](https://idr-testing.openmicroscopy.org)
- ome-zarr-py: using omero-zarr-models-py (main branch) to validate: https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/pull/461
- New repo at https://source.coop/ome/sample-images. Will converting images from https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/images/ for testing etc.

- GerBI (Josh)
- see above Johannes..
- grants submitted
- multiomics tools integration etc.
- datasets for AI
- etc
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- Glencoe
- Erin: see e-mail about proposed logo changes on www.openmicroscopy.org - PR to come...

- 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)