tags: Tuesday
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2026-08-11
Attending: Dom, Andreas, Josh, Frances, Khaled, Seb, Melissa, Damien, Kevin, Tiago, Joel, Kyle, Erin
Start: 2:03 pm UK
Project Status
(2-3 minutes each)
- IDR
- Continue conversions. Some errors with particular file/image formats. Still working on ro-crate format for BIA submission.
- Seb: Is there an endpoint which gives all ome.zarr studies in IDR / EBI bucket?
- Frances: Tag in OMERO.
- Khaled: Will generated csv file. (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IDR/idr.openmicroscopy.org/refs/heads/master/_data/download_urls.tsv see is_zarr and download_url)
- OMERO
- OMERO integration tests functional, fixed by Petr and Seb.
- omero-metadata 0.14.0
- Testing omero-zarr-pixel-buffer. Discussion about becoming part of server needed.
- Bio-Formats
- NGFF
- RFC update (Josh)
- 3 & 4: imminent 0.9.dev1 (Juan)
- 7: restarting work (Tiago)
- 8: editorial review (Josh)
- 10: cleanup and start ops (Josh)
- 5: John disappeared a bit, n5 viewer hopefully coming soon (Johannes)
- Responsibility around ome-zarr Python stack (napari-ome-zarr-models-py) [Johannes]
- Who grants ownership/merge rights/triage/etc?
- bi-weekly dev meeting is helpful
- Johannes goes on parental leave, back to only Will as maintainer?
- There is a lot of buy-in from the community into these projects and a governance would communicate that
- Should/could this project be something like a subproject/team under the NGFF ORP?
- Potential maintainers/contributors: coop team, Wouter-Michiel Vierdag, Joel Lüthi, Lorenzo, etc.
- GerBI
- Still working on getting hardware at de.NBI (the German bioinformatics cloud)
- Looking at Cloudflare vs Hetzner for S3 storage (and perhaps TUS for a more user-friendly upload)
- Battling with the mattermost fiasco
- Glencoe
- Hosting fellow from EBML, joining for a week. Might join NGFF hackathon.
- BioVisionCenter
- Community
AOB
(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)
Main Topic
(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
