2026-07-28
Attending: J-M, Frances, Dom, Seb, Damien, Petr, Melissa, Kyle, Tiago, Chris, Johannes, Andreas, Kevin
Start: 2:00 pm UK
Project Status
(2-3 minutes each)
- NGFF (Johannes)
- From 0.6rc0 to 0.6: Still waiting for implementations to come out so we can pull the trigger
- ome-zarr-py inbound
- PR pending: implementation of scene
- napari-ome-zarr mostly there (one transform missing)
- Waiting on BDV rc release to validate the changes in 2 viewers
- IDR (Dom)
- Started conversion of older IDR studies to ome.zarr (focus on timelapse):
- Problem with idr0044 (KLBReader), trying to build bioformats2raw with IDR fork of bioformats.
- Waiting for BIA to approve our ro-crate.
- No BIA submission pipeline yet.
- OMERO
- CI
- working on strategy to fix integration tests relying on OMERO pyramid generation
- coupling of Bio-Formats PRs into nightly OMERO build disabled in OME CI for now
- OMERO.server
- Immediate goal is to get the OMERO integration tests passing - see above
- Next: review/triage OMERO.server 5.7.0 milestone
- Aim to integrate first Bio-Formats 9 release candidate into the OMERO CI builds mid/end August
- OMERO.py
- Governance
- ORP charter for OMERO.web/OMERO.server. Will be opened against OME governance repository similarly to Bio-Formats charter
- OMERO.web:
- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- Release candidate for 9.0.0 in couple of weeks
- Chat with Norman yesterday about future of zarr-java
- JPEG support in zarr
- Planning to attend Hackathon in Zurich in Nov
- GerBI Damien
- JPEG codec for OME.zarr in Rust
- work on extension for OME.zarr (related to RFC-8). Proposal to split to RFC-8 into 2: collection and extension. Priority extension. Collection will be an extension. Extension as the foundation.
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Glencoe
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BioVisionCenter (N/A)
- Community (Petr)
- Preparation for workshop in Prag
- Brno in December
AOB
(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)
- sort permissions of the minutes
Main Topic
(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
