Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards and Raspberry Ice Cream

This are the sources for the illustrated children's book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards and Raspberry Ice Cream".

The book tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology. Here the short summary:

The famous inventor Zangemann lives in a huge villa high above the city. Adults and children alike love his inventions and are desperate to have them. But then something happens: when Zangemann once again wants to take a close-up look at his inventions during a walk through the city and, with a loud thud, a child riding a skateboard hits him in the shin! Enraged, the inventor makes a momentous decision... The clever girl Ada sees through it all. Together with her friends, she forges a plan.

This book by Matthias Kirschner (author) and Sandra Brandstätter (illustrator) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA a free cultural license.

You can share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format. You can adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. (This is a human-readable summary of - and not a substitute for - the legal code of CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE or CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Furthermore for remix versions (derivative works), the licensor asks you not to make any modifications of the author's personal acknowledgements and the author's and illustrator's short biographies; or else rather completely remove those parts from your remix version.

Publication under this free cultural license was possible due to the great support by dpunkt.verlag GmbH / O'Reilly for the German book and No Starch Press for the English book. Unfortunately Creative Commons licenses are still rare exceptions for commercial published books, and often considered revolutionary and risky by publishers.

A big thank you to dpunkt.verlag and No Starch Press for understanding the values of software freedom, taking the time to discuss and understand the advantages of free cultural licenses, and the great support to publish this book under conditions that respect the FSFE's values.

Translations

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Get your printed copy

The printed version as well as ebooks of the book are currently available:

• In English by No Starch Press. You can order it at your preferred book store, or directly from No Starch Press, get 25% off with the coupon code "Hacking4Freedom", and receive the DRM free ebook.

• In German by dpunkt.verlag GmbH under the O'Reilly imprint. You can order it at your preferred book store, or with this affiliate link directly from Dpunkt.verlag for which the FSFE will receive 12% of the list price.

• In French by C&F éditions. You can order it at your preferred book store, or directly from C&F éditions.

• In Italian by Luca Bonissi. You can order them at your preferred book store, or directly from StreetLib (softcover and eBooks) or from Lulu.com (hardcover) for which the FSFE will receive 42% of the list price for printed books and 72% for eBook.

Profits of sales

Matthias Kirschner wrote the text on a voluntary basis for the FSFE. All author revenues of book and ebook sales go directly to the non-profit Free Software Foundation Europe. The FSFE paid the illustrator Sandra Brandstätter and the children's book editor Wiebke Helmchen for their work. Linuxhotel GmbH made the project possible by already agreeing at the beginning of the writing process, to buy 1000 copies once the book was finished. For the Italian edition, Luca Bonissi donated more than 2000 copies to the FSFE and he sets all revenues of the books and eBooks sales to go directly to the FSFE.

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