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tags: Tuesday
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# 2025-10-14

Attending: Will, Dom, Jean-Marie, Petr, Kevin, Frances, Khaled, Chris, Melissa, Andreas, Erin, David, Kyle,

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)
- NFDI data steward Jens submitting OME-Zarr data, uploaded to BIA. Dom will create a pilot and import data.
- BioFile Finder feedback and tweaks to UI and searchengine backend

- OMERO
- JM: Upgrading roles to Python 3.12 so we can update Docker containers and test-infra
- Andreas working on Django-5 upgrade. PR coming

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- Working through fixes and contributing docs
- No planned release date yet

- NGFF:
- Will: Working on RFC-5: create sample data (tiles with rotation, translation etc.) and view in napari and validator
- https://github.com/will-moore/python-scripts/pull/2
- https://github.com/will-moore/napari-ome-zarr/pull/2
- https://github.com/ome/ome-ngff-validator/pull/48
- Will: Use ome-zarr.js for thumbnails in BioFile Finder: https://github.com/AllenInstitute/biofile-finder/pull/598
- Will: omero-cli-zarr to use Zarr v3: https://github.com/ome/omero-cli-zarr/pull/172
- Dom: Working on [Support for Zarr v3 (ozpb)](https://github.com/ome/omero-zarr-pixel-buffer/pull/11), changed to proper PR now (not draft) to get it into merge-ci build. But also need to get jackson lib version in sync with omero server (hopefully via [Bump jackson libs to 2.20.0](https://github.com/ome/ome-common-java/pull/105) (ome-common-java)?)

- GerBI

- Glencoe (Chris)
- Attending and sponsoring [SBI2](https://sbi2.org/conference/) in Boston at end of October

- 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)