© Oxford University OSS Watch Summary en-GB Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:24:17 +0000 http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/rss/ 1 undisclosed_email_address@ox.ac.uk (Elena Blanco) The Collaborations Workshop gets researchers and software developers working together to solve research problems. If you're a researcher who wants to make more of software, or a developer who wants to work with researchers, the workshop is the perfect opportunity to meet new collaborators. This year's Collaborations Workshop will be held at Queen's College at the University of Oxford on 21-22 March 2012. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-01-30:152417:129:projects/oss-watch/events http://www.software.ac.uk/cw12 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:24:17 +0000 OSS Watch Summary 2 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 Summary 3 undisclosed_email_address@ox.ac.uk (Elena Blanco) OSS2012, the 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems will take place in Hammamet, Tunisia, 10-13 September 2012. The event aims to provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and the public sector, and diverse OSS initiatives can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-01-23:153957:255:projects/oss-watch/events http://oss2012.org/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:39:57 +0000 OSS Watch Summary 4 undisclosed_email_address@ox.ac.uk (Elena Blanco) Flossie 2012 is an event for women who use or would like to use FLOSS in digital arts, NGOs, education and social change movements. Flossie 2012 will take place on 25-26 May 2012 at Queen Mary at University of London, where participants will come together across boundaries of discipline and sector to share ideas, skills and experience. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-01-23:153758:710:projects/oss-watch/events http://www.flossie.org/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:37:58 +0000 OSS Watch Summary 5 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 Summary 6 undisclosed_email_address@ox.ac.uk (Elena Blanco) The Developer Community Supporting Innovation project is holding its annual Dev8D conference in London 14-16 February 2012. Dev8D provides opportunities for delegates to learn new skills, experiment with technology and ideas, share and network amongst their peers and even take on a number challenges and win prizes. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2011-12-06:170924:034:projects/oss-watch/events http://dev8d.org/ Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:09:24 +0000 OSS Watch Summary