help users buy phones with F-Droid
Right now It's really hard for non-tech users to get setup with F-Droid. I think it would be a major improvement to help users get started with options to buy a phone preloaded with F-Droid + Privileged extension. For me the goal here would be to have a prominent "buy a phone with F-Droid" button on our website.
To get this underway we should come up with some form of written agreement with what we expect from vendors we are endorsing/advertising. (eg. ubuntu is certifying hardware vendors.)
We've got a forum thread tracking who ships F-Droid. https://forum.f-droid.org/t/who-ships-f-droid-roms-repos-forks-etc/14185/ Some of these are actually selling phones. Some options might be: Calyx, ShiftOsL, iode, ...