tags: Tuesday —

2026-06-09

Attending: Will, Dom, Petr, Andreas, Frances, Khaled, Joel, Kyle, Kevin, Erin, Chris,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Frances)
  • Testing switchover to UoD IDR tomorrow briefly. Announced on image.sc. Full switchover before end of June, to give users more time to switch.
• OMERO
  • Andreas: OMERO.web - no updates since last week
    • Will: any idea of timeline for next release?
    • Andreas; “Soon” - more details next week
  • Kevin: finishing touches to Zarr v3 support in pixel-buffer

• Bio-Formats

• NGFF
  • ome-zarr-py point release today, ahead of PR 515 merge soon
  • Will: working on ome-zarr.js labels rendering. Intending to use this for Zarr labels in iviewer
  • Joel: RFC-8 Collections PR merged

• GerBI

• Glencoe (Chris)
  • Seb at image.coop meeting; OME-Zarr 1.0 planning
  • Erin: https://os4science.org/funding_opportunity/os4ls/
  • SBI2 meeting in Cambridge UK (for the first time this year). HCS data etc. Emil and Jamie to attend
• BioVisionCenter (Joel)
  • Open bioimaging meetups - next is end of June
    • https://www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Upcoming-Events/Open-Bioimaging-Practices-Meetup-June-30th-2026.html bring your data for conversion workshop
• Community
  • ELMI next week. Petr & Johannes

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)