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# 2025-04-15

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

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):
    - next release 3 new studies and fixes to broken images. Big release, expected end of the month 
    - idr0164 fourth study from HDBR
    - idr0160 single big plate
    - idr0156 embryonic stem cells etc.
    - Next IDR meeting Wednesday 23rd 10am

- OMERO

- Bio-Formats
    - builds status: waiting on quote for hardware for Glencoe.
    - Data sync ongoing. 5 or 6 days to go. Weekly restart of Dundee servers keeps interrupting transfer.
        - Petr: this can be configured with sudo; it's a cron job

- NGFF
  - Working on an abstract for CoRDI: https://www.nfdi.de/cordi-2025/call/ (deadline: Thursday)
  - ngff-zarr now supports sharding: https://forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekly-dev-update-thread/110810/11
    - More updates welcome, e.g. Zarr-pixel-buffer?
  - Hugging Face and storage: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/storage-limits e.g. 100 TB datasets (smaller datasets are free)
    - We could possibly direct users to store OME-Zarrs there?
    - Also https://github.com/mlcommons/croissant/pull/848 etc. Markup language for deep learning.

- GerBI
  - Lots of focus on CoRDI
  - Also looking at various new use cases (cellpainting, light sheet)
    - Whole-mouse cleared imaging datasets - interesting challenge for conversion/storage in OME-Zarr

- Glencoe

- Community
    - Updates to [OME About](https://www.openmicroscopy.org/about/) and [OME Teams](https://www.openmicroscopy.org/teams/)
        - Comments or Edits welcome
        - Next: additional teams from #techdev and [Commercial Partners](https://www.openmicroscopy.org/commercial-partners/)
    - Training
      - Gearing up for OME2025 - 28th April

## AOB

- Dundee systems
  - Passwords (Josh)
    - did not receive prompt to change
    - Melissa and Jason: also did not receive prompt
    - open tickets? Unclear.
    - Petr: was prompted by eduroam to change password. Then updated to use new password for MS outlook and elsewhere


## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
