Image Cooperative

@image.coop

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We are a cooperative of imaging scientists dedicated to advancing open standards and open source technology in scientific image data analysis, storage, and dissemination. https://image.coop

OME-Zarr collaborators having lunch together at the EMBL cafeteria

White text on dark blue saying, "OME-ZARR OFFICE HOURS. New schedule, more time zones! Our office hours now rotate over 3 time zones so more of our community can join in. See the full schedule and
add to your calendar: ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community/#office-hours -- Let's make OME-Zarr more accessible--together! 👋🏼"

A graphic shows the various time zones -- Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe/Africa in green, light blue and purple -- with arrows showing the rotation.

The Image Cooperative team (left to right: Draga Doncila Pop, Eric Perlman, Josh Moore, Juan Nunez-Iglesias, Kevin Yamauchi) helping feed the chickens at the EMBL chicken coop. Photo by Erick Ratamero who was on chicken duty at the time and was also kindly hosting us.

Slide titled "What keeps you engaged with OME-Zarr?" with colored boxes sized to match the number of responses:

## Community (15)
- Great people!
- Delightful people
- Very knowledgable approachable people in the community
- Job, but also exciting to support the community
- People care
- Friendly community
- open communication with the community
- Awesome community
- The community x7

## Value & Trajectory (13)
- moving towards 1.0
- we're almost there :)
- The momentum
- It is the future
- hope
- Love the vision
- finally having the One True Format
- Format is useful and things are happening!
- very promising to handle large data in the future, nothing else seems to provide this
- Data is too big for anything else
- Better format to handle big data
- Potential to solve difficult/modern data problems.
- Obvious value of ome zarr

## Outreach (4)
- very good outreach!
- I'm new here but I will be back! :)
- Curiosity
- Staying updated

## Open (2)
- Open
- Open source

## Flexible (2)
- Versatile
- Flexible

## Misc. (9)
- Useful
- Fair data
- Right technology
- Making hard problems easier
- Need to be able to support end users
- I want to be able to access the benefits
- Scverse uses OME-Zarr as a backbone for Spatialdata object
- "pressure" from the repos, as the only accepted format
- The fame and money

Screenshot of a mentimeter poll titled, "How are you involved with OME-Zarr? Select all that apply". The results are:

3 - Curious/not actively using OME-Zarr. 12 - Tool developer. 11 - Spec contributor. 12 - OME-Zarr data user/Analyst. 6 - Other

A screenshot of Eric's title slide, saying "The role of COOPeration in global imaging. Eric Perlman. Member, Image Cooperative" in Atkinson Hyperlegible font in black on white. The footer is a subtle pink-to-green bar with the hexagonal ball as a separator. The text in the footer says "Image Cooperative Ltd."