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<title>Ada &amp; Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream - Get Involved</title>
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<h1 class="p-name">Get Involved</h1>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/c8/42/61c6e99d3d29d4da9c727b6ec0a6.jpg" alt=""/>
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Illustration from the book
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<h2 id="read">Read It to Others</h2>
<p>
One way to spark children's interest in coding is to read the book to them: in your family, or to your friends' or co-workers' families. It is very motivating and fulfilling to discuss the topic with children and hear about their ideas on what they want to accomplish with technology. You can, for example, simply download <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/src/branch/main/Presentations">the presentation PDF slides</a> and use
<a href="https://download.fsfe.org/ada-zangemann/generated/Ada_Zangemann-reading.en.html">the text with markers for when to turn the slides</a>.</p>
<p>
If you feel comfortable, you can also organise a larger book reading. You can offer that to schools, youth clubs, or libraries. They often look for people to read books and it
is a good way to talk with children about their thoughts on technology and about software freedom. On the <a
href="/activities/ada-zangemann/resources/">resources page</a>, you
can find additional material of the book.
</p>
<figure>
<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/ec/09/aa1f3c2df1b0814babffb7e7274b.jpg" alt="A teacher standing in a classroom holding the book, with all the pupils holding the book in front of their heads."/>
<figcaption>
Ada and Zangemann reading in a French school
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<p>
If you organise a reading, we
recommend that it takes place in a location with <strong>few distractions</strong>.
Readings in "open spaces" have turned out to be more challenging for the
reader, and especially younger children in particular are much more easily distracted by
noise or movement in another area of the room. For <strong>smaller
readings</strong>, try to create a cosy environment with as little space as possible between you and the audience. For example, making the
audience sit on the floor on pillows, with the reader in front of
them. You can find everything you need to organise a reading in <a
href="https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/src/branch/main/docs/readings-organisation.md">our documentation</a>.
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/e6/cc/64eae3bd6d5ce239b1c5fff5f9e1.jpg" alt="two people with a book"/>
<figcaption>
Event with reading of the book in Ukrainian
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<p>
The author, Matthias Kirschner, has already given several readings of
the book: At events for children and adults (from 6 to 106 years),
in school classes, libraries, cinemas, and on other occasions. If you are
interested in a reading by the author or in other available
languages by the FSFE volunteers, please contact us at <email
mailto="yes" subject="AZ-events">contact@fsfe.org</email>.
</p>
<figure>
<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/0d/84/1204ce13be0a41d7006f924e0f3f.jpg" alt="Many children and addults in the conference SFSCON 2023 during a book reading."/>
<figcaption>
Italian reading by Marta Andreoli and Dario Presutti at SFSCON 2023
</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 id="share">Share your Thoughts</h2>
<figure>
<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/06/a9/4731e1c8ad5460091f60d4f82cdb.jpg" alt="Sharepic with a portrait of a person and the quote Curiosity and the Freedom to tinker naturally explains Free Software in this light hearted childrens story. Why not have our ice cream machines that make every flavor and shape? Excellent work!"/>
<figcaption>
<a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/book-reviews.html#kahle">Sharepic by Brewster Kahle, Founder Internet Archive (Europe)</a>
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</figure>
<p>
A picture says more than a thousand words! You can use <a
href="https://sharepic.fsfe.org/#ada">the sharepic generator</a> to
show your love for the book and post your review by generating a
picture that you can share on social media channels or add to your
blog.
</p>
<h2 id="gift">Gift the Book to Others</h2>
<figure>
<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/2a/17/04697eb71d5c44bd473e0cea7773.png" alt="A girl reading a book labeled as remix version"/>
<figcaption>
Mila reading a remix version of Ada &amp; Zangemann © CC-BY 4.0 Romain Debailleul
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</figure>
<p>
Gifting the book to friends and family or co-workers will help to spark children's interest in coding. You can <a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/about.html#editions">buy
a copy online</a> or at your favourite bookstore. After buying it helps a lot if you leave a review or feedback for the store, so they can recommend it to others as well.
</p>
<p>
If you would like to buy a larger number of discounted books, e.g. to gift to employees, partners, or for events, please contact us at <email mailto="yes" subject="AZ-translations">contact@fsfe.org</email>.
</p>
<h2 id="suggest">Suggest It to Libraries / Schools</h2>
<p>
You can <strong>recommend</strong> the book to your public library
or you can even <strong>donate</strong> a copy if a library does
not have the budget to buy it but you can afford to. The same
applies to youth clubs, schools, or hackerspaces. Your copy will
enable children to read it who might not have the financial means
to buy it themselves.
</p>
<figure>
<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/b6/f2/ee6217359ddd3df59299a601c3b1.jpg" alt="Many children in a classroom in Boston (USA) during a book reading with the author."/>
<figcaption>
Author reading of Ada &amp; Zangemann in Boston, USA
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</figure>
<h2 id="ebook">Share as Example Files</h2>
<p>All the material around the book and the movie is available under Creative Commons CC By Share Alike. This enables you to include the e-book or the movie on computers at schools, universities, or as example files for GNU/Linux distributions. This is a great way to spread the story further. If you do, please let us know.</p>
<h2 id="screening">Organise a Screening</h2>
<figure>
<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/61/c9/c398ea1103f74fccefa49a8d41e6.jpg" alt="A movie screen showing the film about Ada and Zangemann. On either side of the screen are several rows of red seats with children sitting in them, seen from behind."/>
<figcaption>
Screening of the movie at its German premiere in Essen, 2024
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</figure>
<p>If reading the book aloud is not your thing, you could also organise a movie screening. Either in a private setting, or with the <a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/movie.html#screening">DCP movie files</a> even renting a cinema and inviting families, your employees with children, or school classes to attend. For the German premiere, we rented the largest cinema in Germany and watched the movie with over 800 children. This is perfect to spark children's interest in technology.</p>
<h2 id="translate">Translate</h2>
<p>
The FSFE would like as many people as possible to learn about the
book and be able to read it in their mother tongue. If you would
like to do a community translation you can directly start on <a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/fsfe/ada-zangemann/">our Weblate instance</a>, please let <a
href="/contribute/translators/">the FSFE's translation team</a>
know about it and have a look at the <a
href="https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/src/branch/main/docs/translation-guidelines.md">translation
guidelines</a>.</p>
<p>
If you have any contacts
with publishers, which are interested to publish the book in
another language, or if you are interested in ordering a larger number of books if the book would be available in a certain language, then
please contact us at <email mailto="yes" subject="AZ-translations">contact@fsfe.org</email>.
</p>
<h2 id="adapt">Adapt</h2>
<p>
In the spirit of the license, you can automatically generate book variants based on templates and
the translated text yourself. Do you want to change the names in the book to your children's names? Do you dislike some parts of the story and want to make changes? <a
href="https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/src/branch/main/docs/building.md">This
practical guide</a> explains how to build the various output formats. It is the same tooling that automatically builds <a href="https://download.fsfe.org/ada-zangemann/generated/">different formats of the book</a> from the <a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/fsfe/ada-zangemann/">translations on Weblate</a> such as <a href="https://download.fsfe.org/ada-zangemann/generated/Ada_Zangemann-screen.en.mediumres.pdf">the screen-readable PDFs</a>.
</p>
<h2 id="automation">Help with Automation</h2>
<p>
The impact of the story is increased when the story is available in
more languages and more formats. Therefore, the automation should
make it easy to add new translations and formats. It should also be
easy to generate and finetune output files, regardless of technical
skill or operating system. Free culture should be favoured when
selecting programs and content such as fonts. If you would like to
help improve the tool chain for the story, you can check out <a
href="https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann/src/branch/main/docs/automation-design.md">the
relevant documentation</a>.
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<h3><a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/">Overview</a></h3>
<h3><a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/about.html">About the Book</a></h3>
<h3><a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/movie.html">The Movie</a></h3>
<h3><a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/resources.html">Resources</a></h3>
<h3>Get Involved</h3>
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<li><a href="#read">Read It to Others</a></li>
<li><a href="#share">Share your Thoughts</a></li>
<li><a href="#gift">Gift the Book to Others</a></li>
<li><a href="#suggest">Suggest It to Libraries / Schools</a></li>
<li><a href="#ebook">Share as Example Files</a></li>
<li><a href="#screening">Organise a Screening</a></li>
<li><a href="#translate">Translate</a></li>
<li><a href="#adapt">Adapt</a></li>
<li><a href="#automation">Help with Automation</a></li>
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<h3><a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/events.html">Events</a></h3>
<h3><a href="/activities/ada-zangemann/book-reviews.html">Reviews</a></h3>
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