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title: ISC OME-NGFF-Zarr Initiative

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# ISC OME-NGFF-Zarr Initiative

## Background

This [Insight Software Consortium](https://insightsoftwareconsortium.org/) is  a non-profit, educational consortium dedicated to promoting and maintaining open-source, freely available software for medical image analysis.

The Insight Software Consortium (ISC) promotes open source, scientific image analysis software in teaching, research, and commercial applications, and maintains webpages and user and developer communities. The flagship project the ISC supports is the Insight Toolkit (ITK).

The ISC has been revitialized as a [NumFOCUS](https://numfocus.org/) fiscally sponsored project.

## OME-NGFF-Zarr Introduction

::An introduction to OME-NGFF-Zarr, Xarray::

## Proposal and how you can help

::Description of the NumFOCUS grant::

We will hold community hackathons to gather together, test, and develop these improvements. We welcome your participation in the upcoming hackathons. To support food, facilities, and and travel at the hackathons, consider a [tax-deducible donation](https://opencollective.com/itk).