tags: Tuesday —

2026-03-10

Attending: Will, Dom, Frances, Tom, Jean-Marie, Khaled, Melissa, Joel, Petr, Johannes, Kyle, Chris, Seb, Kevin, Tiago, Erin

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances)
- Preparing for next release with 2 new studies idr0167 and idr0171
- EBI microscopy course next week
OMERO
Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- Planning release next week
NGFF (Johannes)
- Met with John Bogovic yesterday to finalise v0.6dev3
GerBI (Tiago)
- NGFF PR review on Friday https://github.com/German-BioImaging/incubator/issues/55
- LinkML Java progress
- Fulda Community Meeting, Johannes, Tom, Tiago and Josh attending in person (16-18), some OMERO events
- JM: zarr-test-suite tests are failing. Do we want to fix?
  - Petr: had a look but no quick fixes
  - Johannes: we have a set of examples tested by cli regularly
  - JM: tricky for tests to work across repos from different orgs (passing tokens etc)
Glencoe (Chris)
- Seb: working on Java support announcement - will get feedback internally first
BioVisionCenter (Joel)
- Fractal preprint is out https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709921v1
- Anyone at CCP volume EM meeting
Community
- Microscopy and data analysis online course EBI (JM, Petr, Frances) all next week
- 27th March Harvard remote workshop
- OME 2026 etc.
- Joel presented Fractal at workflow meeting
- GerBI meeting next week (Josh, Tiago, Johannes etc)
- JM: let’s cancel next Tuesday’s meeting

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)