tags: Tuesday —

2026-03-31

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

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances)
  • 2 studies released yesterday. Last release for IDR on EBI prior to migration to UoD.
  • Migrating data from “idr” bucket from embassy to livingobjects bucket
• OMERO (Seb)
  • https://www.openmicroscopy.org/2026/03/24/end-of-java-8-support.html
  • OMERO.web: new Django upgrade follow-up PR for more defensive date handling
• Bio-Formats (Melissa)
  • prepping for OME 2026 meeting
• NGFF (Josh/Johannes)
  • Remaining “Must have” PRs until 0.6rc0:
    • Unify syntax for transform input/output fields across spec: https://github.com/ome/ngff-spec/pull/117
    • Replace arrayCoordinateSystems: https://github.com/ome/ngff-spec/pull/118
    • Rewrite section on displacements/coordinates transform (prev. hard to follow): https://github.com/ome/ngff-spec/pull/108
  • More work on the “capabilities-manifest”. Potential next target of Zarr-java
• GerBI (Josh/Damien)
  • Release & reactivation of FBbi (link)
    • Planning frequent releases
    • Use image.sc forum to connect with users
  • Approaching the end of the FoundingGIDE project (internal link)
    • Hopefully this is a good home for repo, but could be moved e.g. to ome if needed.
  • OME2026 org, e.g., program. Any thoughts on the hackathon?
• Glencoe
  • Erin at ABRF conference
  • OMERO-Plus recently new release. Updating customers
• BioVisionCenter (Joel)
  • New Fractal server version released https://fractal-analytics-platform.github.io/news/2026-03-31-fractal-workflow-templates/
  • Talk after this meeting: Johannes on OME-Zarr v0.6 https://www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Upcoming-Events/obpm-march-2026.html
• Community (Petr)
  • Harvard remote workshop last week. Interest in Figure and QuPath etc.
  • Preparing OMERO.figure workshop for OME 2026

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)