© Oxford University News from around the open source community which has not been generated by OSS Watch en-GB Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:17:44 +0000 http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ 1 undisclosed_email_address@ox.ac.uk (Elena Blanco) The ODF (Open Document Format) Toolkit is a set of lightweight Java modules for processing Open Document Format ISO/IEC 26300 documents, the standard format used by OpenOffice and LibreOffice among others. The ODF Toolkit project has just announced its first release since it entering the Apache Software Foundation's project Incubator in August 2011, labelled "0.5-incubating". http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-01-30:151744:452:projects/oss-watch/communityn http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ODF-Toolkit-gets-first-Apache-release-1423805.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:17:44 +0000 OSS Watch Community News 2 undisclosed_email_address@ox.ac.uk (Elena Blanco) A multidisciplinary team of engineers from the University of Washington and the University of California, Santa Cruz have developed a surgical robot, called Raven 2, for use as an open source surgical robotics research platform. The Raven 2 is a surgical robot with 7 degrees of freedom, compact electronics and two wing-like arms which end in tiny gripper claws designed to perform surgery on simulated patients. The robot's software is compatible with Robot Operating System, an open source robotics coding platform. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-01-23:152316:119:projects/oss-watch/communityn http://medgadget.com/2012/01/open-source-surgery-a-robot-called-raven-takes-flight.html Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:23:16 +0000 OSS Watch Community News