tags: Tuesday —

2025-07-29

Attending: Petr, Dom, JM, Khaled, Frances, Seb, Jason, Melissa, Kevin, Kyle, Andreas, Erin, Chris, Emil

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

(2-3 minutes each)

IDR
- idr-next currently spinning up.
- Will include one study idr0170 (imaging mass spectrometry)
- Point out on social media that submitter did zarr conversion.
OMERO
- Looking into omero-py release (bugfix).
- OMERO.web: Have to look into security issue. Should be straightforward fix. JM: Do we need security-ci? Not much time to spin up ci. - Not necessary.
- Petr: Input needed for qupath discussion from Seb. Seb: Drafting response.
Bio-Formats
- Quiet week. Issue with repo test build fixed by Seb. Working on 8.3.0.
NGFF
- bioformats2raw: PR open for support of <5D (collapse dimensions).
- registration:
  - expanding testing resources (found bugs) including data on Google Cloud (it works!).
  - working on v3 support in Zarr pixels buffer. Libraries (jzarr, zarr-java) discussion when we have a prototype in place (Josh to contact Norman)
- ome-zarr-py
  - testing changes using ome-zarr-models (https://github.com/ome/ome-zarr-py/pull/461) v4 support. Work on v5 still ongoing.
- Going to present current work on NGFF community call, also on Tuesday meeting before (later in August)
GerBI
Glencoe
- Chris: Not much else to what already been discussed.
- Erin: Going through trademark renewals, omero logos. Input welcome.
Community
- IDR Release on LinkedIn and BlueSky. Please repost, like, etc.
- IDR release on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/openmicroscopy.org/post/3lurouvev2224
- Petr: Workshop videos from Pune will be published soon.

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

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)