tags: Tuesday —

2025-11-04

Attending: Will, Frances, Petr, Jean-Marie, Dom, Johannes, Chris, Seb, Melissa, David, Andreas,

Absent: Josh

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances)
  • next release will include OME-Zarr submissions idr0168 and idr0173
• OMERO
  • Andreas - updated jquery forms. Testing TBD
  • Seb: need to decide on Django (and python) requirement for next OMERO.web release.
    • Andreas: expect to be able to support Django 4.2 and 5.2 with the next release.
    • Chris: expecting Django 5.2 security release
  • Seb: tmp dir updates looking good - https://github.com/ome/openmicroscopy/pull/6441. Builds working. No bugs reported from OME team
• Bio-Formats (Melissa)
  • reviewed PRs for 8.4.0. Release planned for January
  • No formats meeting next week
• NGFF
  • Will: prepping for Zurich hackathon next week…
    • Aim to merge https://github.com/BioNGFF/ome-zarr.js/pull/17 so we have v0.6dev2 thumbnails in validator
    • Also nice to merge https://github.com/ome/napari-ome-zarr/pull/123 so that RFC5 work in https://github.com/will-moore/napari-ome-zarr/pull/2
    • https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/pull/492 allows users to create RFC5 (v0.6dev2) sample data (not ready to merge. API feedback appreciated)
    • https://github.com/ome/ome-ngff-validator/pull/48 for RFC5 (coordinateSystems)
    • https://github.com/ome/ome-ngff-validator/pull/62 for RFC8 (Collections)
• GerBI (Johannes)
  • First GerBI team meeting last week in Heidelberg to discuss direction, goals etc. Good progress - nice to do the same for OME?
• Glencoe (Chris)
  • Ongoing redis secvuln, nearly done. Need users to update their packages.
• Community
  • NGFF hackathon etc in Zurich next week (Will, Dom, JM, Johannes)

AOB

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Main Topic

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