Emiel Brok

91 points

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Emiel Brok is an active contributor to the open source ecosystem. He is enthusiastic, energetic and experienced speaker and chairman of the day at (Open Source) IT events. He is Manager Training EMEA at SUSE. He has been sales marketeer at AT Computing and co-founder and chairman of LPI Netherlands. His dream is that every IT student finishes school with Linux knowledge at the right level.

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Lobbying for open source and Linux in schools

About eight years ago, I started lobbying to bring more Linux and open source software to high schools and higher IT vocational institutions in the Netherlands and Belgium…

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EmielBrok

30 Nov 2015

8 projects with LEGO: plastic bricks meet open source

Great article, thanks.
Maybe a nice 9th Project would be ev3dev. Open Source your LEGO Mindstorms.

This is a Debian Linux-based operating system that runs on several LEGO® MINDSTORMS compatible platforms including the LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 and Raspberry Pi-powered BrickPi.

Just like you can take apart your LEGO® models and build something completely different, we have reversed-engineered the EV3 and created a new software platform for programming your robots.
http://www.ev3dev.org/

Enjoy reading and playing!

EmielBrok

9 Oct 2015

Top 6 open source desktop email clients

Thanks for this interesting overview.
I (as non-IT technician) like Zarafa as email client. I am curious if you know this open source product and if so is there a reason why you did not mention it in this Top 5?
Looking forward to your reply.

https://www.zarafa.com/