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<html newsdate="2021-11-29">
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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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<figure>
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<img
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src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/b2b23d22357bfc0c568a472b45a56dd3.png"
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alt="Different illustrations from the book"/>
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<figcaption>
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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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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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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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<blockquote>
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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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</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
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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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</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
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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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</blockquote>
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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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</body>
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<tags>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="childrensbook">Children's Book</tag>
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</tags>
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<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/773"/>
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<image url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/b2b23d22357bfc0c568a472b45a56dd3.png" alt="Different illustrations from the book"/>
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</html>
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