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<title>Children’s book published about software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream</title> |
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<h1>Children’s book published about software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream</h1> |
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<p>Today, 29 November, O'Reilly Germany publishes the book "Ada & Zangemann - A |
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fairy tale about software, skateboards and raspberry ice cream" written by FSFE |
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President Matthias Kirschner and illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter, among |
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other things, character designer for the series "Trudes Tier" from the show |
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"Sendung mit der Maus".</p> |
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<blockquote><p>The famous inventor Zangemann lives in a huge villa high above |
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the city. Adults and children alike love his inventions and are desperate to |
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have them. But then something happens: when Zangemann once again wants to take |
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a close-up look at his inventions during a walk through the city and, with a loud |
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thud, a child riding a skateboard hits him in the shin! Enraged, the inventor |
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makes a momentous decision... The clever girl Ada sees through it all. Together |
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with her friends, she forges a plan.</p></blockquote> |
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Illustration by <a href="http://sandra-brandstaetter.com/">Sandra Brandstätter</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/">CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE</a> |
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<p>This illustrated children's book tells the story of the famous inventor |
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Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with |
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hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her |
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and others to control technology.</p> |
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<p>A book for children from the age of 6 that arouses children's interest in |
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tinkering and encourages shaping technology.</p> |
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<p>"Kirschner's book introduces readers young and old to the power and peril of |
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software. It also highlights the accelerating effects of sharing software |
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freely - creating conditions for direct and indirect collaboration which can |
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be a metaphor for the conduct of science. Behind it all is a backdrop of |
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ethics of knowledge sharing upon which the arc of human history rides."</p> |
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<p>Vint Cerf - Computer Scientist and one of the inventors of the internet |
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(after reading the English translation).</p> |
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<p>"Even as a non-child, I was captivated by the story from the first page to |
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the last. Kudos to the author for packaging difficult topics such as |
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monopolies, lobbyism, digital divide, software freedom, digital autonomy, |
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IoT, consumer control, e-waste and much more in a child-friendly form in an |
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easily understandable and exciting storyline. And kudos to the publisher for |
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having the guts to publish a book under CC-BY-SA."</p> |
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<p>Jörg Luther, chief editor of the German Linux-Magazin, LinuxUser, |
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Raspberry Pi Geek</p> |
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<p>"After my son was read the book last night, he told me the whole story |
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this morning... He wants to make something out of old pallets after school |
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today. And then he wants to learn programming."</p> |
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<p>Ingo Wichmann, CEO Linuxhotel GmbH</p> |
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<p>The book <a href="https://oreilly.de/produkt/ada-und-zangemann/">"Ada & |
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Zangemann - Ein Märchen über Software, Skateboards und Himbeereis"</a> by |
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Matthias Kirschner and Sandra Brandstätter, published by dpunkt.verlag GmbH |
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under ISBN 978-3-96009-190-5, is licensed under "Creative Commons |
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Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany <a |
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href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/">(CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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DE)</a>".</p> |
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<p>Matthias Kirschner wrote the text on a voluntary basis for the FSFE. All |
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author revenues go directly to the non-profit Free Software Foundation Europe. |
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The FSFE paid the illustrator Sandra Brandstätter and the children's book |
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editor Wiebke Helmchen for their work. Linuxhotel GmbH made the project possible |
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by already agreeing at the beginning of the writing process to buy 1000 copies |
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once the book was finished.</p> |
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<p>Currently, the FSFE is looking for a suitable publisher for an English |
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translation. The FSFE would like to enable as many people as possible to read |
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the book in their mother tongue and <a href="/donate">asks for donations for |
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its work</a>.</p> |
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<p>Further press material on "Ada & Zangemann" is <a |
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href="https://oreilly.de/presseinformationen/pressematerialien-ada-und-zangemann/">available |
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on the publisher's website</a>.</p> |
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