#zangemann — Public Fediverse posts

#SFSCON26 programme is out! 🚀

As usual the FSFE :fsfe: will be there, with diverse talks, workshop and of course, Ada & #Zangemann !

Will we see you there?

#SoftwareFreedom #DigitalSovereignty

Another lightning talk at #Plone Conference by Armin featured how to do cool short movies with simple tools using the example of Ada & #Zangemann stickers. 🥰

RE: https://techhub.social/@abbas_dp/117286888144711561

A big thank you to the more than 35 people from @Shirazlinux who worked on the Persian translation of "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream"! 👏 👏 👏 👏

So etwas kann entstehen, wenn Menschen mit ähnlichen Anliegen sich gemeinsam in den Dienst einer Sache stellen."

Ich bin das erste mal mit @hyperjinx auf #Mastdon in Kontakt gekommen, weil jemand ein Bild von Ralphs Buch und Ada & #Zangemann nebeneinander gepostet hatte mit der schweren Entscheidung was jetzt zuerst gelesen wird. Dadurch haben Ralph und ich dann Bücher getauscht und kamen in Kontakt.

Short info for German speakers: on Saturday 12 September 20:15 there is the "Die große Maus-Show" in German public television with a part about an electronic swarm of fireflies made up of #Caliopes by Thorsten Kimmeskamp.

(Thorsten had presented this experiment on a smaller scale in November 2024 at the German premiere of "Ada & #Zangemann", attended by many members of the @fsfe at the Lichtburg cinema in Essen in front of an audience of over 800 children.)

The @fsfe 's Ada & #Zangemann https://ada.fsfe.org website got a larger update.

Started in December 2021 as a one pager about the German book and the plans to publish an English version as well ( https://web.archive.org/web/20211212202800/https://fsfe.org/activities/childrensbook/ ) it now covers information about the book, the movie, reviews, additional resources, events and how to get involved.

Thanks to our trainee Silvia and other from the @fsfe team for working on this!

Long queue for @fsfe 's ice cream at #dwebcamp after the movie screening of "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of #Software , Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" . all available under CC-By-Sa. See https://ada.fsfe.org

For those of you in the US: until 10 July you can get "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" with a 40% discount directly at my publisher @nostarch https://nostarch.com/ada-zangemann (including many other cool books about technology, #software, #hacking, #DIY, #Lego, and other #geek stuff)

So great to have @nicorikken spending a lot of his vacation time to make many improvements for the Ada & #Zangemann automation. For example we now have ODT files for doing readings with markers for when to turn the slides: here the English one https://download.fsfe.org/ada-zangemann/generated/Ada_Zangemann-reading.en.dbk.odt other auto generated files on https://download.fsfe.org/ada-zangemann/generated/ 🥰

Hola Málaga 🇪🇸
Since yesterday, we’ve been at @opensouthcode talking about #SoftwareFreedom with the local community!
Today, the story of Ada and #Zangemann is part of the buzzing Kids Space 👾. It’s wonderful to see so many children and their parents tinkering, experimenting, and discovering the power of #FreeSoftware 💡
Thank you, @opensouthcode, and everyone involved for making this such a great conference! ❤️

Proud to wear my #Weblate T-shirt 👕 after spending a few days of improving the translations 🌐 of Ada & #Zangemann and the automation to render the book translations. 🌟 Newest feature in the automation is the support of different fonts for Scribus to support more languages. We wouldn't have so many translations if wasn't for Weblate! ❤️ More info via the repository https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann

@securepaul I'm overwhelmed on a daily basis by the interaction I get for the Ada & #Zangemann book translations. Mostly about Free Culture, although part of it is Free Software. You can watch the #FOSDEM talk which is filled with community anecdotes https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/R9Q9ZP-ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@floriansnow/116770149928301489

I cannot wait to also have one of the Czech Ada & #Zangemann books in my hands 🤗 🥰 Big thank you to Tomáš Starý, @mirek , Radek Vokál, and others whom I first met at #devconf who made that possible! 👏

RE: https://podcasts.social/@engkiosk/116682148494572076

It was a huge pleasure to join the @engkiosk talking with Andy and Wolfgang about many background details of Ada & #Zangemann.

If you speak German and are interested in details about the journey or you just want to listen to a #podcast episode about #softwarefreedom that makes you feel good, this is for you.

As a kid and teenage #Lego addict I had to get this!! The current #HumbleBundle with @nostarch 's Build it with #Lego books: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/best-of-humble-build-it-with-lego-books 🥰

(Transparency: #NoStarch is the publisher of the English edition of my book "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream.)

Leuk om bij @NLUUG te zijn met de #FSFE stand, gericht op de nieuw beschikbare Ada & #Zangemann boeken. Ook al ideeën hoe opgedaan hoe we meer impact kunnen maken https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260108-01.nl.html

The Austrian Ministry of Education created this great online course about "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream". Also as #OpenEducationalResources under #CreativeCommons CC-BY-SA.

Cool exercises they implemented there. Love to see that translated into other languages as well.

https://www.eduvidual.at/course/view.php?id=218862

There is now an Ada fan club in Brussels 🤗 https://kids.keskonfai.com/@adas_fan_club Need more of those to counter all the #Zangemann out there.

Happy to see that the default #Firefox bookmarks pack for @fedora now includes link to "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-bookmarks/pull-request/10 (thanks to Justin for initiating this at #Devconf_cz )

When I hear about children who are presenting Ada & #Zangemann at their school -> 🥰 If you ever hear about that, I am very interested in getting a picture of their poster or worksheet. I love reading those!

When Petter discovered “Ada & #Zangemann”, he immediately felt the urge to make sure the story was available to the #Norwegian speakers. Now “Ada og Zangemann - En fortelling om programvare, rullebrett og bringebæris” has been published and was presented during the Norwegian local celebrations of #ilovefs.

Read Petter’s story and if you like what he did, join me in a round of applause for Petter 👏👏 👏 👏 https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260302-01.en.html

RE: https://toot.liw.fi/@liw/116159425819425757

Anyone here in the #FreeSoftware #OpenSource community who can help to proofread the Finnish translation of Ada & #Zangemann ?

In 2024 was de Nederlandse vertaling van Ada & #Zangemann nog in de maak en hield ik op @tdose de eerste boeklezing. Deze is nu hier terug te zien: https://tube.t-dose.org/w/kruC1WZc6EK2hBbWAxksWY Ondertussen is de Nederlandse vertaling te koop in e winkel: https://www.qwant.com/?q=9789465332307

At #FOSDEM I promised people that if you attend the talk by @nicorikken and myself you will feel better afterwards. From the feedback we received I think we accomplished this.

The recording of the talk "Automating translation of a bestseller to spark children's interest in coding" is now also online here, so if you ever need some "feel good" moments around #softwarefreedom feel free to watch: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/R9Q9ZP-ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/ #zangemann

@internetarchiveeurope @kirschner @fsfe @tommi @mayel @Bonfire @Holly What an event! Thanks for everyone involved in the organization and thanks to all attendees! It was lovely to meet so many many nice people and hear interesting stories and perpectives. I loved the laughter of reconition during the Ada & #Zangemann book reading. The event left me energized and hopeful.

Hi @kirschner

I think you already know how important your book "Ada & #Zangemann" is for our free software movement. But something inside me still thinks that you underestimate it!

Meanwhile I have read the book (or watched the movie, or heard the audio book) tens of times with my daughter and every time I do, I am astonished how beautiful, relatable, and encompassing the story and the drawings are. I see how deep it touches not only her creativity and sense of freedom seeking, but also mine.

دربارهٔ برنامهٔ کتاب‌خوانی (در واقع فیلم‌بینی) که تو مهدکودک #فسقل_مربوطه برگزار کردیم بگم!

انجام شد، و بچه‌ها طبق همهٔ شواهد ممکن و موجود خیلی کیف کردن 🤩

#Zangemann

This I Love Free Software Day ❤️ I like to thank 🙏 the #Scribus contributors in particular. Without Scribus we wouldn't have been able to publish the translations of 🛹 Ada & #Zangemann🍦 books, 📚 let alone automate it. ❤️ The community has very kind and helpful. 🫶 Who are you thankful for? https://ilovefs.org

Net even gekeken naar de verkoopcijfers van Ada & #Zangemann. We verkopen door de hele #BeNeLux en ook behoorlijk bij losse boekhandels. Heb jij het boek al in huis? https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260108-01.nl.html Bestel het met ISBN 9789465332307 Voor het gemak hier een link naar Bol.com als populairste boekwinkel: https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/ada-zangemann/9300000252601923/