tags: Tuesday
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2026-08-18
Attending: Will, Josh, Khaled, Frances, Joel, Petr, Tiago, Seb, Damien, Andreas, Johannes, Jean-Marie, Melissa, Kyle,
Start: 2:00 pm UK
Project Status
(2-3 minutes each)
- IDR (Frances):
- ongoing conversion to OME-Zarr
- No updates on ro-crate (people on AL)
- OMERO
- OMERO.web (Andreas)
- Petr: merge-ci is down since 12:00 restart today. Can’t ssh etc.
- Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- working through 9.0.0
- No meeting on Monday (holiday)
- AI policy draft from Josh
- NGFF (Josh)
- 0.6: implementation update w/ Sep 1. target (Johannes)
- Johannes: transformnd, ome-zarr-models-py, ome-zarr-py governance agreement needed
- 1.0: RFC-8 under evaluation, keeping BVC in the loop (Josh/Coop)
- Potential need for Zarr work on consolidated metadata (Chris)
- Damien: working on docs/plans for making OME-zarr extensible - will send soon.
- RFC-7: restarting work on channel information (Tiago)
- JM: migrate/build on “omero.channels”?
- Tiago: scope is tricky to define
- Josh: idea is to get “core” metadata into 1.0, then other info can be in extensions, e.g. rendering settings
- JM: use-case: Pathviewer allows grouping of Channels to toggle them on/off etc.
- ML: important to separate the data from how to look at it. bf2raw e.g. shouldn’t care about which group a channel is in
- GerBI (Josh)
- Just finished a round of interviews for the ESG4Stars project
- Ramping up on S3 storage for the multimodal techdev project
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Glencoe
- BioVisionCenter
- Community
- Panama trip, last week on November. Latin-America bio-imaging meeting
- Brno workshop planning
AOB
(5 min. max; tech. Discussion should be highlighted to relevant people and rescheduled)
Main Topic
(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)
