Image Cooperative

Note: there will be **no OME-Zarr office hours this week** as we prepare for the next week's OME-Zarr hackathon. *But* the good news is, it's a great time to learn about OME-Zarr: the "State of OME-Zarr" presentations from the hackathon can be attended remotely! Details in thread:

We took a break from advertising these but we are still holding weekly OME-Zarr office hours! Ask @jni.codes or @joshmoore.bsky.social anything about OME-Zarr on Thu Oct 22 at 9am Paris / 12:30pm Delhi / 6pm Sydney. Full details and zoom link at: ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community#of...

It's @perlman.bsky.social representing the @image.coop at #i2kbina2026!

🚨Upcoming OME-Zarr Office Hours!🚨 TODAY Oct 1 9am Paris / 4pm Tokyo / 5pm Melbourne. Come ask questions, or lurk as @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social, Draga Doncila Pop, @joshmoore.bsky.social, and @jni.codes discuss ome-zarr-models-py and RFC-8. ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community/#o...

ICYMI: OME-Zarr 0.6 is out! 🎉 This is big, years in the making. @bogovicj.bsky.social & @jo-soltwedel.bsky.social perseverance brought transformations into this next major step on the road to OME-Zarr 1.0. 👏👏👏 Huge congratulations to the Johns — and to everyone who helped get us here! 🥳🙌

What happens when browsers agree with each other, but disagree with the specification? A few days ago, my colleague @bkardell.com pointed out that this sometimes happens! You might expect us to fix the browsers. But sometimes, we change the specification instead. www.atbrakhi.dev/blog/browser...

This is the best explanation of the interplay of specs, tests, and implementations that I've read. The point of both specs and tests is interoperable implementations, but that doesn't mean that implementations are always right when they agree.

New blog post from @joshmoore.bsky.social : how we communicate about project stages and what kind of feedback we are seeking at any given time, and avoid "stop the presses!" moments when something is close to the finish line: image.coop/blog/posts/2...

Igalia turns 25! Read about their journey in the quoted thread+blog. Igalia is the cooperative that inspired @image.coop. I was lucky to visit them in A Coruña a few months ago and they continue to inspire me with their dedication to collective governance and open source. Here's to 25 more years! 🥂

Just to keep the quote-post stack growing... 24(.5) hours until our next #OMEZarr office hours! Chris Barnes from @gerbi-gmb.de will be available for AMA on OME-Zarr. Thurs. Sep 17 @ 1700 CEST.

OME-Zarr Office Hours in <24h! Ask anything about OME-Zarr, and/or join Draga Doncila Pop and @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social working on oztest, which generates test cases for ome-zarr libraries. Thu Sep 10 @ 9am Paris / 5pm Melbourne github.com/German-BioIm... ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community/#o...

Our next OME-Zarr office hours are in just under 24h! Pacific-friendly this week: 8am Fri Tokyo / 9am Fri Melbourne / 4pm Thu San Francisco. Come ask any and all OME-Zarr questions! Or watch @jni.codes and Draga Doncila Pop work on RFC-4 support in napari! ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community/#o...

"What the heck is…OME-zarr/NGFF" Demystifying bioimaging tech: no jargon, no judgment, just real conversation with @jo-soltwedel.bsky.social on the latest tools & trends. 📅 Sept 3, 1–2:30 PM (Zoom) Register: t1p.de/0byxl | Infos: t1p.de/zkcnd #opensource #ngff #ome #bioimaging

The next OME-Zarr Office Hours is coming up in just over 2h! 8am SFO / 11am NYC / 5pm Paris. Come ask any questions about OME-Zarr, and/or watch @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social live-convert an HCS (High Content Screening) dataset to RFC-8 syntax! ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community/#o...

Our next office hours session is coming up in just under 22h! 2026-08-20 at 9am Paris/12:30pm Delhi/5pm Melbourne. Ask us anything about OME-Zarr and/or watch @jni.codes attempt to live-release the experimental 0.9dev1 version (including RFCs 3 & 4) with @joshmoore.bsky.social's help!

At the next #NGFFCafe, Marvin Albert (ETH Zurich) will present 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄-𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿, a Python package for scalable stitching/alignment/fusion of multi-view, tiled & multimodal image acquisitions. Join us! 🗓️ Thursday, July 30 🕚️ 11 am CEST 📍 Online Register⤵️ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's an exciting day for #Fiji users! Now read and write @zarr.dev v3 and #OMEZarr v0.5. Don't want a million tiny files in your #zarr? Shard that sucker! Read the details here forum.image.sc/t/fiji-can-r...

Earlier in June, we had our first in-person meeting at @embl.org (thank you for hosting us!), joined by representatives from Glencoe, Fideus Labs, @gerbi-gmb.de, and @scalableminds.com (+Dundee & Janelia on zoom) to start our OME-Zarr 1.0 project. More details to come, but it was fun and productive!

We're excited to help organize the OME-Zarr Office Hours with a new rotating schedule starting today! 🎉 Whether you're using OME-Zarr today or just curious to learn more, we'd love to see you there. 📅 Full schedule: ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community

Keeping track of OME-Zarr support across the ecosystem isn't always easy. Over the past few weeks, we've been speaking with stakeholders about experiences, successes, and remaining gaps. Here is our snapshot of where things stand and where effort may be most valuable next: image.coop/blog/posts/2...

Some initial results from the live survey at the recent #OME-Zarr Community Call for you to ponder over the weekend. Thoughts, as always, welcome! 🤔

Getting to know who's in the room at the first session of the #OME-Zarr Community Call. If you missed it, join for the second session to share your thoughts. Let's grow that 'curious' bubble! 🫧 forum.image.sc/t/join-us-fo...

great first presentation of the @image.coop, by @perlman.bsky.social exciting stuff! #GIDE2026

Member Eric Perlman takes the stage at @embl.org to announce our launch as an international worker co-op for #OSS scientific imaging software. First task supported by @biohub.org is accelerating #OMEZarr towards a 1.0 alpha early 2027. Stay tuned! image.coop #GIDE2026 @gideproject.bsky.social

Where better to hear the community's thoughts on #OMEZarr!

Thrilled to join #ome2026! Reach out to Eric or Josh if you want to chat.

Really excited to finally share this more widely. This is exactly the kind of work we hoped the cooperative could support—helping turn strong community momentum around #OMEZarr into something more coordinated and sustained. Very curious to hear what people think.

Our first project is live. ✨ With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there. More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...

Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software. image.coop/blog/posts/2...