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tags: Tuesday
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# 2026-01-13

Attending: Will, Petr, Frances, Dom, Khaled, Seb, Chris, Andreas, Jean-Marie, Joel, Damien, Kevin, Kyle, Melissa, David, Yajing, Tiago,

Excused: 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):
- idr0167, idr0171 (via Jens) for next release
- imported, testing annotations
- BioFile Finder, final testing done. PRs under code review
- Dom working on playbooks for Dundee migration of IDR

- OMERO
- Seb: OMERO.server 5.6.17
- GitHub project - https://github.com/orgs/ome/projects/33/ - lots of items but no blockers
- OMERO.py release including Python 3.10 as the minimum version (already required by omero-web)
- Expect server release mid February

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- on track for 8.4.0 release this week. See proposed release notes https://github.com/ome/bio-formats-documentation/pull/454
- 8.5.0 or 8.4.1 expected before 9. release later this year

- NGFF:
- Johannes, Will, Josh: call next Tues 20th on ome-zarr-py
- Joel: Lorenzo would be interested in listening
- Joel: see image.sc https://forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekly-dev-update-thread/110810/47?u=will-moore

- GerBI: Tiago: PR reviews ongoing but nothing to report

- Glencoe
- 2 Job openings: Application specialist https://www.glencoesoftware.com/about/careers/applications-specialist/ and SysAdmin https://www.glencoesoftware.com/about/careers/systems-administrator/

- Community
- Petr: Karolinska workshop in Feb
- ELMI: Portugal in June

## AOB

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

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)