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tags: Tuesday
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# 2025-12-09

Attending: Josh, J-M, Dom, Frances, Damien, Will, Joel, Melissa, Kyle, Seb, David, Erin, Tom, 2:14: Chris, Andreas, 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 planned for January
- idr0171 for next release - Compound screen Jens - NFDI4BI data steward
- Next release will include BioFile Finder

- OMERO (Tom)
- Hackathon last week: 15 on-site, 7 remote
- Work on various plugins: figure, iviewer, parade, napari.
- Lots of PRs opened or in progress
- Slides https://zenodo.org/records/17856704

- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- Finishing prep work for 8.4.0 Jan 15th
- Jan 19th special formats meeting on OME-XML schema
- Monday 2pm if anyone interested in joining

- NGFF (Josh)
- Progressing towards 0.6.dev3 - announcement on image.sc soon. Also see main branch of ngff-spec. PR for dev3 based on hackathon work (small changes)
- JM: Niraj worked on adding OME-Zarr support in 3D-slicer at the OMERO hackathon
- Investigations into transformations in rust

- GerBI (Josh)
- Ramping up work on metadata (Damien, Tiago)
- includes RO-Crate (also to some extent in rust)

- Glencoe (Erin)
- Latest release notes are on our website (note Django changes, OME-Zarr/bioformats2raw work):
- [OMERO Plus](https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2025/12/03/whats-new-in-omero-plus.html)
- [PathViewer](https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2025/12/03/whats-new-in-pathviewer-3-15.html)
- [Glencoe's Bio-Formats](https://www.glencoesoftware.com/blog/2025/12/03/whats-new-in-bioformats-8.3.0-834.html)
- Seb: publishing minor update of OME-TIFF specification (motivated by raw2ometiff)
- https://github.com/ome/ome-model-documentation/pull/7 schema

- BioVisionCenter (Joel)
- Progress towards OME-Zarr 0.5 support in ngio continues. Our 0.5.0 release is close
https://github.com/BioVisionCenter/ngio
- Work this December on conversion tooling, focused on use cases with handling tiling during conversion to combine many FOVs into a single OME-Zarr image: https://github.com/BioVisionCenter/ome-zarr-converters-tools
- November OME-NGFF hackathon summary blog post in the backlog

- Community
- Petr workshop in Brno and OMERO Hackathon last week

## AOB

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

* GH Org update (Josh/Seb) ([worksheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14efIroQi1CNAqUcN1MsP5naPOdRUzPzG5rEwPjQk8ow/edit?gid=0#gid=0))
- Downgraded gh/openmicroscopy to free - don't pay for unused build time. Small number of repos now
- Changed default permissions on gh/ome: private repos not visible to others
- Migrated data_repo_config to gh/ome
- Open questions:
- Wikis on private repositories will be lost on migration from paid to free(see mgmt tools)

## Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)