I found this post when searching for a gallery of images taken with the OFM. I think that some sort of notification being sent every time an OFMv7+ microscope was commissioned would be hugely beneficial. I’d suggest that, just prior to a completely anonymous notification being sent by default, you get asked if you would like to include geolocation and any other optional information & whether you are happy of any of that to be released publicly. That way you could perhaps have an anonymous location at Point Nemo to show all the v7’s commissioned without geolocation consent.
In due course we could have a public user database where we could also share our images (with a simple publish button in the software) and what we’re doing with our OFMs.