tags: Tuesday —

2026-05-12

Attending: Will, Dom, Johannes, Andreas, Seb, Khaled, Frances, Melissa, Kyle, Petr, Chris, Tiago, Erin, Kevin,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances)
- ongoing migration to UoD infra. Issues with some OME-Zarr images using omero-zarr-pixel-buffer to “livingobjects” storage. Copying of data still in progress
OMERO (Seb)
- OMERO.server 5.6.18: releasing last OMERO.server components, version history and releasing
- OMERO.server 5.7.0: planning (features, timelines)
- OMERO.web: picking PRs for 5.32.0. Will coordinate with server release
Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- Roadmap planning for Bio-Formats 9 (after September)
  - Minimum Java version changed from 8 to 11
  - holding off on merging breaking changes for next couple of weeks, till June
  - registry and QA systems future? Still hosted in Dundee
NGFF (Johannes)
- 0.6.dev4 still (pre) released. Release candidate for 0.6
- spec phase: pending OME implementations; probably
  - ome-zarr-py
  - ome-zarr-models-py
  - napari-ome-zarr
GerBI
- Tiago and Josh attended foundingGIDE meeting last week.
  - Lots of talks about adding metadata from acquisition systems
  - foundingGIDE project ending in 2 months.
  - image search discussions ongoing
Glencoe
BioVisionCenter
Community
- FYI: https://forum.image.sc/t/join-us-for-the-next-ome-ngff-community-call-on-tuesday-may-26-2026-9-00-cet-and-17-00-cet/120940

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)