tags: Tuesday —

2026-09-29

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

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR (Frances)
- Ro-crate submission file size mismatch
- IDR external-info update fixed by removing cache
OMERO
- OMERO.web 5.33.2 released last week (Andreas)
- OMERO.server 5.7.0
  - working on integrating omero-zarr-pixel-buffer in the build system & OME CI
- Chris: thanks to Petr, Dom, JM for work on artifactory
  - Background work to list our services and who maintains them
Bio-Formats (Melissa)
- looking at axis orientation info - wrt NGFF spec
NGFF (Johannes)
- Moving ome-zarr python stack to new org ome-zarr-py that will contain
  - ome-zarr-py
  - napari-ome-zarr
  - ome-zarr-models-py
  - transformnd
  - ome-zarr-book
- See https://github.com/ome/governance/pull/7
- 0.9dev2 tagged (Chris-B)
GerBI
- Johannes shortly before parental leave (may or may not be here in next meetings)
- Damien: imaging-metadata PhD - not NGFF related yet
  - preparing comments on RFC-8 wrt extensibility
- Josh: Bharti starting this week
Glencoe (Chris)
- SBI2 (Boston) and other conferences coming up
BioVisionCenter
Community
- https://forum.image.sc/t/open-bioimaging-practices-meetups-fall-2026-program/122564
- NGFF hackathon prep in progress. E-mail soon.

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)