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tags: Tuesday
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# 2025-06-24

Attending: Will, Jean-Marie, Andreas, Frances, Khaled, Seb, Kyle, Kevin, Chris,

Conflicts: Josh

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)
- prod128 with zarr-pixel-buffer. Landing pages looking good for next release.
- Waiting for submitters to fix a couple of broken images (incorrect images with missing Channels in one study. Other has one broken OME-Zarr - thumbnail wasn't created). Will delay release a bit. Annotations are OK.

- OMERO (Seb)
- Proposed release notes for OMERO.server 5.6.16 - https://github.com/ome/openmicroscopy/pull/6434. Includes Bio-Formats 8.2.0, OMERO.py 5.21.0 and OMERO.web 5.29.1

- Bio-Formats (Seb)
- Maven Central Portal migration
- https://central.sonatype.org/news/20250326_ossrh_sunset/
- EOL of OSSRH service used for publishing low-level OME Java libaries under the [org.openmicroscopy](https://central.sonatype.com/search?namespace=org.openmicroscopy) namespace
- Migrating to the Central Portal. Successfully tested on [ome-common 6.0.26](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.openmicroscopy/ome-common/6.0.26)
- Propagating changes to other components and updating the contributing pages
- JM: will need update of build process & docs publishing for OMERO components
- New internal #formats Slack channel created yesterday
- Allows discussion between Glencoe and OME teams

- NGFF
- Will: about to release [omero-cli-zarr 0.6.0](https://github.com/ome/omero-cli-zarr/pull/179). Supports latest version on numpy.
- JM/Will: [register.py](https://github.com/jburel/omero-import-utils/pull/1) script for "import" of OME-Zarr images / plates
- Needs discussion on s3 authentication for omero-zarr-pixel-buffer. How to store this info in OMERO?
- OME-NGFF community call this morning (and repeated at 4pm today)
- Tong Li presented High throughput workflows - mostly using OME-TIFF: users & IT find it easier to work with small numbers of files. Also users can e.g. drag and drop onto Fiji.

- GerBI

- Glencoe
- Glencoe team meeting in person July 7-9. Will miss Tuesday meeting

- Community
- Petr and Jean-Marie at GBI course in Pune, India last week:
- Successful course: Lots of interest from countries where resources are limited - following Indonesia usage.
- OMERO installation workshop: some users have very limited IT experience.
- OMERO.server installed at Pune.
- OME community meeting on OME website. Promoting/showcasing OME usage by members of the 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)