tags: Tuesday —

2026-05-26

Attending: Will, Frances, Khaled, Jean-Marie, Chris, Petr, Seb, Johannes, Dom, Damien, Kyle, Melissa, Tiago, Erin, Josh,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances):
  • last few searchengine and gallery PRs for UoD deployment of IDR. Testing planned later this week
• OMERO
  • Seb: OMERO.server 5.6.18 & OMERO.web 5.31.1 released
  • omero-web PRs assigned reviewers
  • Thanks to Dom & Petr for testing Insight builds. Hopefully get these out to users soon. Some decisions re code-signing etc
• Bio-Formats (Melissa)
  • Working through 9.0.0 tasks
  • Zarr Java meeting to be re-scheduled
• NGFF (Josh)
  • 0.6rc - any other blockers/changes.
  • Johannes: ome-zarr-models-py close to release for 0.6(.dev4)
  • Coop’s Heidelberg meeting - 8th June
• GerBI (Josh)
  • “Hubs” - TIM meeting hardware provision by multiple vendors
• Glencoe (Chris)
  • artifactory being hit by lots of AI downloads. Hard to maintain public cache (no authentication)

• BioVisionCenter

• Community
  • ELMI 15-19 June: OMERO workshop 18th

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)