2026-07-09 –, Kinderopolis
During these "Tinkering Time" sessions, our young campers will be encouraged to imagine and build their own ideas and inventions.
This "Tinkering Time" welcomes author Matthias Kirschner to read from his book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream". This is a story about 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.
Andi served as teaching artist and site arts coordinator in San Francisco public schools for over two decades. As project coordinator for ArtsEd4All, she creates curriculum, conducts workshops, hosts film screenings, and organizes participatory community events such as the annual Blake Mini Library book drive for Hamilton Families, Civic Season with Made By Us, and open-ended play with The Blue Marbles Project. Her creative partners include composer/musician Marcus Shelby, First Voice led by artistic directors Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu, The Last Hoisan Poets (poets Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong and Nellie Wong), Del Sol String Quartet, and the Internet Archive.
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Matthias Kirschner is President of FSFE. In 1999 he started using GNU/Linux and realised that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Matthias is convinced that this technology has to empower society not restrict it. While studying Political and Administrative Science he joined FSFE in 2004.
He helps other organisations, companies and governments to understand how they can benefit from Free Software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press or privacy.
In his spare time, together with his children and others he wrote the book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream", which is available under Creative Commons in many languages and meanwhile also as a movie.
