tags: Tuesday —

2025-09-02

Attending: Will, Petr, Dom, Jason, Melissa, Kyle, Khaled, Seb, Chris, Erin, Andreas,

Start: 2:00 pm UK

Accepting minutes from last meeting

Project Status

(2-3 minutes each)

• IDR (Dom)
  • Testing a few new submissions. See idr0173 below
  • Jason: next release timeline? Dom: not scheduled yet
• OMERO (Andreas)
  • discussing/planning OMERO.figure export script fixes for images without full pyramids
• Bio-Formats
  • nothing to report
• NGFF
  • TechDev:
    • 3a (Import)
      • Dom: Using register workflow for testing idr0173 with changes to omero-zarr-pixel-buffer (endpoint support and 4D support)
      • Will: calculation of stats (data volume)? Needs different approach Will: what about labels -> masks? PR to do this in register.py Images have masks.
    • 3c (BioFF)
    • 3b/3d (Python)
      • Will: Looking at napari-ome-zarr without using ome-zarr-py David offered to help adopt ome-zarr-models-py instead - thoughts?
      • Josh: I think we should consider this carefully. See https://github.com/thewtex/ngff-zarr/pull/215

• GerBI

• Glencoe (Chris)
  • Export decisions (e.g. OMERO.figure above) and limitations/guardrails on server load.
  • Erin: maybe some small website fixes to come
• Community
  • Petr: Petro (Prague) asking for a workshop. TBD after meeting Petr at Brno workshop in December

AOB

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

Main Topic

(20-25 minutes plus 15 minutes questions max)