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# 2025-01-28

Attending: Will, Jason, Dom, Frances, Petr, JM, Khaled, Seb, Andreas, Kevin, Melissa, Josh, Kyle, Chris, Erin

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:
    - Dom demo'd import to NFDI data stewards on Friday and recorded this. They will give it a go
    - idr0159 being imported to idr-next now.
    - Hyper-spectral EM data (OME-TIFFs) also expect to be included: Giepmans
    - Estimate release end of Feb.

- OMERO
    - openmicroscopy.org issues. Post to image.sc if no improvement soon.
    - Will: discussing figure with contributors, outlining future plans, etc.  Notes at https://hackmd.io/YYS7EzcSTnC_joHSl5WsNg 
    - Seb: status of LUTs? Will: PR updated in progress https://github.com/ome/omero-web/pull/603 

- Bio-Formats
    - Next release next Tuesday. Time to iron out release workflow

- NGFF
  - [RFC-4](https://ngff.openmicroscopy.org/rfc/4/index.html): another reviewer
  - RFC-2 (0.5.2): ongoing discussions
      - Perfection should not be enemy of the pretty damn good
  - driving towards 0.6

- GerBI
  - Dresden & Göttingen site visits. Talk on OME-Zarr but still lots of usage/need for OMERO. 
  - Issues: "history", data movement, tracking of conversions: Samba -> s3 -> OMERO data migration issues.
  - Missing next week (All Hands Meeting)

- Glencoe
    - Centos7 deprecation & cleanup PRs
    - Support for new distros in progress
    - New [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdb0hukcOIU&list=PL97FT5N4etwqRnF0yBP38atIhKdrHQdS7) on pathviewer

- Community
    - OME-NGFF (Tech Dev?) Consortium
        - First meeting update
        - Interesting mix of multimodal data types. Transcriptomics, H&E, correlative EM etc.
        - Next: setup slack connections.
        - "Data stories" to capture use-cases, needs.
        - Data to be hosted on EBI s3, mostly public if possible
        - First goals for EMBL in April
    - NFDI all hands meeting next week. Josh & Frances
    - ELMI workshop, likely to run OMERO wrkshp
    - Global BioImaging, Pune, OMERO installation. 
    - [iSEA](https://www.imagingsea.org/) will be discussing data management. 

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
