tags: Tuesday —

2026-09-15

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

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances)
- Planning update release next week to update zarr urls to livingobjects storage
OMERO
- Andreas: OMERO.web release last Wednesday
- Petr: openmicroscopy.org certs using letsencrypt. Migrating from GoDaddy.
  - Still need to figure out the OMERO server
- Seb: new patch release of omero-zarr-pixel-buffer. Will start rolling it out shortly.
  - omero 5.7 roadmap in progress
  - omero-py PR review meetings - restart? from https://github.com/ome/omero-py/pull/489
- Petr: Packaging Insight for Mac?
  - Seb: would be nice to update. Needs focus. Testing of https://github.com/ome/omero-insight/pull/494 is first step.
Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- Tagged 9.0.0rc1 last week. Working towards 9.0.0 release.
NGFF
- 0.6.0 released (Johannes)
- 0.9.devX & RFCs (Josh)
  - dev1: any feedback? (RFC-3, RFC-4)
  - dev2: ASAP (build improvements etc)
  - dev3: likely parts of RFC-8
  - WIP roadmap
GerBI (Josh)
- BioImageNet project funded: 2 years to (define how to) build a corpora for AI. Open mailing list. https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/bioimagenet
- ISO/Tokyo with discussions with various vendors
Glencoe (Chris)
- various conferences coming up
BioVisionCenter
Community
- ORP Charters (Josh): running behind, will likely merge the PRs for some slight unifying
- Petr: outreach in Prague 15th October

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)