Group: Giving Guide Suggestions

Note: This page is not the guide; The guide is at fsf.org/givingguide. This page is for giving recommendations of products we should consider for the guide. The items listed here should not be taken as FSF recommendations.

Each year the FSF publishes a giving guide with recommendations of products that respect your freedom. This group is a place for you to provide your ideas for the buying guide.

Thanks for helping your fellow FSF members make ethical choices this holiday season. Happy holidays!

Guidelines

Make a new category if necessary, but please check existing ones first
Provide links to detailed descriptions of the products when possible.
If it's not obvious, provide an explanation of why you chose the product(s) for the section you put it/them into.
For "greater than" pairs, the items should be relatively interchangeable as far as functionality is concerned.
The FSF may curate this list by removing suggestions that have been incorporate into the guide, and any that are not in keeping with the spirit of the guide.

Ideas

Hardware

A bootable flash drive with free software as an inexpensive gift
Devices with free OSs preinstalled from http://swappa.com/
If you can't find a device with a free OS preinstalled, get one and install the OS yourself, then give it to your friend. This makes an even better present than something you paid for but didn't work on.
Arduino boards?
a dreamplug for beeing used as a freedombox?
OLinuXino > Raspberry Pi
Acoustic guitar from your local music shop > Squier by Fender USB Stratocaster Guitar for iBad from Apple Store
TV-Recorder: MythTV > TiVO - Does someone sell ready-to-use no-tinkering-required MythTV boxes?
E-bookreaders (with epaper): ? > Sony eReader
Tablet PC: ? > iPad
Portable gaming devices: Pandora (console)? > PlayStation Portable (PSP)
Gaming devices: ? > Wii
BookLiberator Beta BookLiberator is a device for scanning and digitizing books, using all free software. The Beta version is on sale now at the QuestionCopyright.com store.

Other

homebrew vorbis players based on arduino and mp3-shield inside fritzing black box (link to store?)
Donations to the FSF or free software development projects in friend's names
Gifts from the shop.fsf.org
Give your friend a homemade coupon promising to set up their computer with a free GNU/Linux distribution, help them learn to use it and help them maintain it.
Clothes from this http://www.freewear.org/ . You'd have to mention that freewear donates some money to the FSF.
DRM-free ebooks, including books about free software
Real, paper books - for instance normal books, or books on free software, preferably under a free (software) license (depending on the kind of works such as documentation, views of an author etc.)
Recommending a hosting service that respects people's freedom to be in control of their machine
A trip to free software conferences such as FOSDEM?
Buy a product from or donate to fritzing.org, download the free software

Software

(Note: giving someone software might be more inconvenient for that person than if they just got it themself in their preferred way.)

Electronic Design Tools: download gEDA ( http://www.geda-project.org ) or Kicad ( http://www.kicad-pcb.org ) > Eagle ( http://www.cadsoftusa.com )
3-D CAD/CAM: download FreeCAD ( http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page ) > CorelCAD ( http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4120067&cid=catalog20038&segid=752 )
Animation: download Blender ( http://www.blender.org ) > Adobe ( http://www.adobe.com/products/flash.html )
Music: LMMS ( http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ ) > Ableton Live ( https://www.ableton.com/en/live/ )
Games: GOG ( http://www.gog.com/games ) > Steam ( http://store.steampowered.com/ )
Movies: GOG ( http://www.gog.com/movies ) > Netflix ( https://www.netflix.com/ )

Similar guides and other resources for inspiration

"issue" is not in the list (interest, location, project, school) of allowed values for the "Organized around" property.

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