Open Startup – Mautic https://mautic.org World's Largest Open Source Marketing Automation Project Wed, 21 May 2025 07:44:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://mautic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/iTunesArtwork2x-150x150.png Open Startup – Mautic https://mautic.org 32 32 Open Startup Report #26 – April 2025 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-26-april-2025 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-26-april-2025#respond Sat, 24 May 2025 10:49:00 +0000 https://mautic.org/blog/ Key points

1. Financial growth: Substantial income from Mautic Trials and membership renewals contributed to a healthier financial status, despite being slightly adrift from the budget goals.

2. Community engagement: Renewed support from the Drupal Association and the integration of new corporate memberships showcase the community’s expanding influence and commitment.

3. Product development: Continued enhancements with the release of Mautic 5.2.5 and updates to the community portal, improving user experience and system functionality.

4. New working groups: Onboarding of new maintainers for Docker and WordPress plugins, addressing long-standing maintenance gaps and planning for future upgrades.

5. Global contributions and participation: Notable contributions from organizations and individuals, with an increase in active contributors and community members, driving forward Mautic’s mission and outreach.

Finances

Overall the finances have been much healthier this month, with membership renewals and a large income from the Mautic Trials helping to boost our income. While we’re managing to keep our expenditure lower than budgeted, we’re still around $24k adrift from where we need to be financially.

Income

This month saw us receiving a substantial commission from a large conversion on the Mautic Trials, which results in a 40% revenue share coming back to Mautic. Thank you again to our provider, Dropsolid, for supporting the Mautic Trials infrastructure.

We had a renewal this year from our friends at the Drupal Association – thank you for your ongoing support! – and also a new Community Tier membership was sold – the first corporate membership processed through our new Stripe website integration! – so it won’t land into our account until next month.

We also noticed a duplicate payout from Open Source Collective from our Stripe account due to some internal glitches at their end with operating this new system, which is represented below as income but has been refunded already.

DescriptionAmount
Trials revenue$6,619.50
Corporate members$5,000*
Monthly sponsors$1,105
Individual members$232.26**
One-time sponsors$80
Total$13,036.76

* We sold a Community Tier membership this month too (🎉), but it won’t be transferred into our account until May as it was processed via Stripe, so it’s not represented here and will be reported next month.

** This includes an accidentally duplicated payout from Open Collective’s Stripe account of $66.18 which has been refunded in May.

Expenditure

This month saw us renewing our virtual office, which enables us to have a physical location from which to send and receive postal mail. Other expenditure is in line with expectations.

DescriptionAmount
Employment$8,492.30
Host fees$1,302.69
Payment processor fees$528.24
Administration$306.68
Infrastructure$367.27
Total$10,997.18

Contributions

A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in April!

These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community.!

🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic | 90 Day Report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for April 2025!

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Acquia 164 (⬇ 34.14%)

UpScale 110 (⬆ 32.53%)

Dropsolid 105 (⬆ 20.69%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 90 (⬆ 12.50%)

Ionutojica 66

Webmecanik 60 (⬇ 25.93%)

Meditationstudies 56

Surge Media 32 (⬆ 113.33%)

Comarch 29

Crafting.email 29 (⬇ 30.95%)

Top contributing companies

Acquia 72 (⬇ 25%)

Dropsolid 29 (⬇ 35.56%)

UpScale 26 (⬇ 3.70%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 12 (⬆ 20%)

Aivie 11 (⬆ 37.50%)

Webmecanik 11 (⬇ 62.07%)

Comarch 10 (⬆ 100%)

Other Media 5

Meditationstudies 4

Æsir 3

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

Individuals

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community🫶🏻 🙌🏻

Most active contributors

Renato Castro 257

John Linhart 131

Martin Vooremäe 110

Ionuţ Ojică 66

Anderson José Eccel 57

Dominic Mayers 56

Lenon Leite 46

Michael Wolman 32

Ricardo Freire 29

Rahul Shinde 28

Top contributors

John Linhart 45

Martin Vooremäe 26

Anderson José Eccel 23

Nilesh Lohar 20

Ruth Cheesley 12

Rahul Shinde 11

Zdeno Kuzmany 9

Ayu Adiati 7

Artem Lopata 7

Renato 6

Patryk Gruszka 6

Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖

Pedro Gomes

ElPollero

PedroLoureiro1

Krishu0765

The ERIN

Gagandeep Singh

Renato

Iuri Jorbenadze

NARITA

henmohr

Matt O’Keefe

Top supporters

Oluwatobi Owolabi 1

Alexander Nitsche 1

Miami City Man 1

Ricardo Freire 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 11 new contributors 🚀 (⬇ 13.33%) and 46 new members joining the community !💖 (⬇ 46.51%)

Usage of Mautic

We’re continuing to see strong growth in Mautic instances being updated since the beginning of the year, driven in part by the release of 5.2 as the Long Term Stable release.

A chart showing the number of Mautic instances by date last updated. There's an increase around 2020 Q1 then a drop, but the drop is reversed from 2023 Q4 onwards where it's rising to a peak in Q1 2025.
Source: Mautic updates server

Trial signups are also continuing to perform well, with a higher number of signups and larger sized use cases being recorded since the new website was launched. This benefits Mautic because we receive a 40% commission on the trials that convert into using our managed hosting service, helping Mautic to continue to grow and thrive.

trials april 2025
Source: Mautic trials signups

Packagist installations with Composer are now seeing an uptick in installations of Mautic 6.0 along with continued installations of Mautic 5.2. There are still small numbers of Mautic 4 installations happening, probably with legacy systems which aren’t yet updated.

The trend is very definitely on the increase, which is great to see with our drive to implement a Composer-by-default install approach.

composer core lib april 25

Community health

This month we’ve released Mautic 5.2.5 with 12 bug fixes, thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

We’ve also had an update to our Community Portal which sees a much more accessible theme, and a nicer layout, as well as many bugs being fixed, the ability to set your own user timezone in your profile, and an improved anti-spam system. If you spot any problems please report them via our GitHub repository.

Our call for Docker and WordPress maintainers has been answered and I’m delighted to share that we’re in the process of onboarding new working groups for both. This is really important because both Docker and the WordPress plugin had been largely unmaintained for quite some time, so I’m really excited that they’re now going to be updated much more frequently with new features and improvements planned for both.

Check out the Docker roadmap here, and the WordPress plugin roadmap here. If you’d like to join either, please let us know via the Slack channel #docker or #wordpress-plugin.

Conclusion

April has been a promising month for Mautic, with significant financial improvements and deepening community involvement. Although there’s still a gap to be closed with the finances we’ve had a considerable boost from the Trials revenue and membership renewals which is great to see.

There have been some key improvements in areas like the Community Portal and with two new working groups spinning up for Docker and the WordPress Plugin, we’re seeing a much more proactive approach from contributors stepping up to get involved.

We still have a way to go but we’re making good progress and I’m excited to see how next month pans out!

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Open Startup Report #25 – March 2025 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-25-march-2025 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-25-march-2025#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 10:47:35 +0000 https://mautic.org/blog/ Key points
  • We’re working hard towards financial stability, you can help us by using Mautic’s hosted service (which gives 40% of the income back to the open source project), becoming an individual or corporate member of Mautic, or by purchasing Extended Long Term Support.
  • We’re continuing to see new contributors stepping up to support Mautic but there are many areas where we’re very short on contributors. Check out https://mau.tc/contribute for how you can get involved
  • Mautic usage is continuing to grow strongly, both from the uptake on the trials and also through installations and instances that call back to our updates server.
  • We’re now over 9,000 active people in our community, how awesome is that! 🎉

Finances

Income

March was a quiet month when it comes to memberships with only four new individual members, however we did receive a larger than usual transfer from GitHub Sponsors which we think is some backdated funds from previous months (we’ve checked with Open Collective and it was a genuine transfer).

We also received a refund on fees from a duplicated community tier membership which was on auto-renew for one of our members.

DescriptionAmount
Individual members$400
Monthly sponsors$1,885
Refunds$173.10
Total$2,458.10

Expenditure

This month we had several of our domain names renew which is why there’s slightly higher than normal expenditure on the infrastructure line item. As mentioned above, a duplicated membership had to be refunded which is why it’s showing here as a refund. Other expenses are as expected.

DescriptionAmount
Employment$8,717.53
Refund$1,200
Infrastructure$494.32
Host fees$178.50
Consultants$159.90
Payment processor fees$53.94
Total$10,925.26

Contributions

A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in March!

These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community.!

🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic | 90 day report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for March 2025!

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Acquia 249 (⬆ 50.91%)

Dropsolid 87 (⬇ 60.81%)

UpScale 83 (⬆ 167.74%)

Webmecanik 81 (⬆ 131.43%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 80 (⬆ 2.56%)

Aivie 46 (⬇ 39.47%)

Crafting.email 42 (⬆ 35.48%)

Twentyzen 35 (⬇ 25.53%)

Matic Zagmajster s.p. 16

Surge Media 15

Top contributing companies

Acquia 96 (⬆ 54.84%)

Dropsolid 45 (⬆ 73.08%)

Webmecanik 29 (⬆ 190%)

UpScale 27 (⬆ 28.57%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 10 (⬆ 11.11%)

Aivie 8 (⬇ 11.11%)

Comarch 5 (⬇ 16.67%)

Axelerant 4

Friendly 1

Twentyzen 1

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

Individuals

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community 🫶🏻 🙌🏻

Most active contributors

John Linhart 209

Martin Vooremäe 83

Anderson José Eccel 76

Zdeno Kuzmany 45

Rahul Shinde 43

Ricardo Freire 42

Dirk Spannaus 35

Ekke Guembel 28

Norman Pracht 25

Lenon Leite 23

Top contributors

John Linhart 63

Anderson José Eccel 40

Martin Vooremäe 27

Levente 18

Saurabh Gupta 15

Zdeno Kuzmany 13

Norman Pracht 12

Miroslav Fedeleš 9

Ima-Abasi E. Effiong 8

Rahul Shinde 7

Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖

Farzam Madani

ujale

Judy

Luiz

Jeroen Spitaels

ccamusso

Sonvir

Sara Matos

Kingsley Udoh

Dalton McGehee

Jun

georg_bnm

Chirag Moradiya

Guilherme Gomes

Top supporters

georg_bnm 1

Norman Pracht 1

ccamusso 1

Dirk Spannaus 1

John Linhart 1

Martin Vooremäe 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 14 new contributors :rocket: (⬆ 114.29%) and 86 new members joining the community! 💖 (⬆ 6.17%).

Usage of Mautic

We continue to see a strong trend based on the sites which are updating and pinging our updates server. In Q1 we had just over 15,000 Mautic instances checking in after being updated. This is the highest rate we’ve seen in all time.

A chart showing the number of Mautic instances by date last updated. There's an increase around 2020 Q1 then a drop, but the drop is reversed from 2023 Q4 onwards where it's rising to a peak in Q1 2025.

We’re also continuing to see a strong growth in signups for the official Mautic trial, with nearly 700 signups in March which is our highest yet.

A chart showing the number of signups by the month the trial was requested, with a steady growth over time through to March 2025 where it's at the highest rate of 692.

When it comes to installations we’re seeing a strong growth in Composer-based installs of Mautic 5, which is to be expected as it comes into Long Term Support (LTS) status.

A screenshot of stats from Packagist showing strong growth in Mautic's core-lib package being installed since November 2023. There's also a chart below showing different versions by number of installs, with 4 significantly dropping from mid-2024 and 5 taking a strong growth from mid-2024.

Community Health

This month has been a big month for releases, with the latest in our series of bug fixes for Mautic 5 – 5.2.4 – being released with 15 bugs fixed, in addition to 6.0.0 beta, Release Candidate and General Availability.

I’m delighted to welcome Martin Vooremäe to the team of volunteer release leaders – it’s great to see more people stepping up and helping to support Mautic’s release process. He’s carried out releases as assistant lead, and next month will be leading his first release.

I’ve also put out a call for maintainers for the Docker repository and the WordPress plugin – two important areas where we’ve not had active maintainers for several years that really need reviving. Please let me know if you’d be interested! We also have several teams who need people to step up and support various initiatives, from putting on our Mautic Conferences to writing the newsletter and helping improve our documentation. Check out https://mau.tc/contribute to see how you can get involved.

We’ve also now topped out at over 9,000 active members since back in 2014 when Mautic was founded, which is pretty awesome!

A chart showing membership growth over time excluding bots, topping out at over 9,000 active members. There's a steady growth since 2020.

Conclusion

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to income generation, however we’re making good progress and managing to keep our outgoings lower than budgeted.

We continue to see a growth in adoption of Mautic both from trial users but also through installations, which shows the ongoing growth potential for Mautic.

Community members are continuing to step up and start contributing (but there’s always more to do, so please lend a hand!) and we’re retaining contributors as well, which has been exciting to see.

Onwards and upwards!

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Open Startup Report #24 – February 2025 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-24-february-2025 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:58:46 +0000 https://mautic.org/blog/ Key points
  • While there’s a good stream of renewing memberships and income, this month saw less corporate memberships and ELTS sales than expected, so more focus is going on this area next month.
  • Contributions continue to grow steadily across the community
  • Trials are seeing the highest signups since they launched just under a year ago, helped by the new website.
  • The first Extended Long Term Support release was made this month for Mautic 4, including three security fixes, along with 5.2.4. 6.0.0-beta is delayed by some work being needed on the upgrade path between Symfony versions, and is expected to be released in March, with General Availability in April.

Finances

Income

This month saw Druid renewing their membership as a Community Tier member – thank you for your ongoing support!

We also have a relatively stable monthly sponsors income, two individual member renewals and also two contributions to our bounties fund which can be used by the Product Team to incentivise work on specific tasks which need addressing. The balance of this account is now $460.88 in total, so there’s quite a lot of capacity for issuing smaller bounties for code or documentation related tasks, should team leads decide to use it.

Income from corporate memberships is down on the expected income, which is something we’ll be working hard to address in the next months.

A large commission coming from the Mautic Trials is still pending while the invoice is paid, we’re expecting this to come through this quarter. We’re also negotiating some ELTS subscriptions which we expect to convert once our first security releases for ELTS are made.

DescriptionAmount
Corporate membership$1,200
Monthly sponsors$1,195
Individual membership$200
One-time bounty contributions$73
Total$2,668

Expenditure

This month has been quite a stead month for expenditures, and we’ve made a large saving by deciding to change our online virtual conference provider which will result in a substantial reduction in expenditure on infrastructure this year.

DescriptionAmount
Employment$8,821.58
Host fees$266.80
Infrastructure$190.72
Payment provider fees$118.72
Total$9,397.82

Contributions

A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in February!

These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community!

🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic | Last 90 Days Report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for February 2025!

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Dropsolid 222 (⬇ 36.39%)

Acquia 165 (⬇ 18.72%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 78 (⬇ 18.75%)

Aivie 76 (⬇ 26.21%)

Twentyzen 47

kobun.app 39

Webmecanik 35

Crafting.email 31 (⬇ 24.39%)

UpScale 31 (⬇ 3.13%)

Comarch 27

Top contributing companies

Acquia 62

Dropsolid 26 (⬆ 13.04%)

UpScale 21 (⬆ 16.67%)

Webmecanik 10 (⬇ 9.09%)

Aivie 9 (⬇ 35.71%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 9 (⬇ 55%)

kobun.app 6

Comarch 6 (⬇ 25%)

Other Media 3 (⬆ 80%)

Surge Media 1

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

Individuals

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community🫶🏻🙌🏻

Most active contributors

Nick Vanpraet 169

John Linhart 151

Rahul Shinde 76

Dirk Spannaus 47

Jaishree 39

Anderson José Eccel 37

Ekke Guembel 34

Ricardo Freire 31

Martin Vooremäe 31

Patryk Gruszka 27

Top contributors

John Linhart 47

Martin Vooremäe 21

Anderson José Eccel 17

Levente 9

Rahul Shinde 9

Avikarsha Saha 8

Patryk Gruszka 6

Jaishree 6

Artem Lopata 6

Hugo Prossaird 5

Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖

Avikarsha Saha

Rishith Reddy

Cestercian

Jaishree

Varshith Yadav

Vishnu Gurrapu

dominic.mayers

Top supporters

stemautic88 2

Michael Wolman 1

Ekke Guembel 1

dominic.mayers 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 7 new contributors :rocket: (⬇ 58.82%) and 81 new members joining the community! 💖 (⬆ 2.53%).

Usage of Mautic

This month we’re continuing to see strong growth in the number of active instances which are updating, with 11,603 this quarter already we’re on target to exceed the highest count for the past twelve months.

Screenshot of a line chart which shows a large peak in 2019 followed by a decline up until 2024 where it's been increasing since.
Source: Mautic updates server

We’re also seeing a gradual uptick in the number of folks checking out the upcoming major release, Mautic 6.0, and more updating from 4.x to 5.x now that Mautic 4 is no longer supported, down to 24% of users on 4.x.

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Source: Mautic updates server

We’re seeing record numbers of visitors to the Mautic website signing up for a trial, with 632 signups in the month of February alone.

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Source: Mautic trial signup form

The new website has much more prominent calls to action on pages to encourage people to get started with Mautic through a trial, which is likely behind this increase.

We now have more in depth analytics on the website when people consent to marketing cookies which means that we can get a better understanding of which elements are driving conversions and the general path of our visitors through the website – more on this in future updates.

Community Health

This month we’ve released 5.2.3 and our first Extended Long Term Support release, 4.4.14 – both of these are security releases. If you are still using Mautic 4 and want to ensure you’re protected against these vulnerabilities you really should be thinking about either updating to Mautic 5 or purchasing Extended Long Term Support if you need a bit more time before updating. Mautic 4 is now no longer supported, so bugs and security issues won’t be available any more.

I’d like to say a big thank you to the amazing contributors in our security team who work tirelessly behind the scenes to coordinate with the researchers who identify problems, resolving and testing the fixes, and then finally releasing them to our users.

In particular, big thanks to Nick Vanpraet who led his first release since joining the release team – it’s a big step up and we’re grateful for your efforts!

We’ve also seen teams holding regular onboarding calls for new contributors, so whether you’re interested in getting started with testing bug fixes and features, writing documentation, supporting our events or helping with our marketing there are many opportunities! Be sure to keep an eye on the Community Portal for upcoming calls, or join the team channels on Slack.

Conclusion

This month’s report highlights that while Mautic’s financial health is improving we still have a lot of work to do in growing a stable base, driven by consistent membership signups, renewals, ELTS sales and strategic cost reductions.

It’s great to see the ongoing efforts to onboard new contributors and the successful handling of security updates reflect a mature and responsive community, poised for sustained growth and innovation.

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Open Startup Report #23 – January 2025 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-23-january-2025 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:09:23 +0000 https://mautic.org/blog/ Key points
  • January kicked off well with a strong start for Mautic, achieving a total income of $59,869.20 and expenditure of $27,682.56.
  • We’ve released Mautic 6.0.0-alpha and 5.5.2 and seen an increase in the number of active instances and stable downloads per quarter.
  • The uptake of Mautic Trials continues to grow, averaging over 500 signups per month.
  • The launch of the new Mautic website is a huge step in Mautic’s growth as a product, allowing us to more clearly communicate Mautic’s features, and position it more effectively within the market.

Finances

Income

January has been a good month for income, with a Diamond tier renewal, a new Gold membership and a Community Tier renewal. Sponsorship remains stable, and we’ve had one new individual member.

DescriptionAmount
Corporate membership$58,940
Sponsorship$795
Individual membership$100
Affiliate payments (Mailfloss)$34.20
Total$59,869.20

Expenditure

This month we had invoices for December and January for employment as we missed the previous invoice due to vacations. As host fees are linked to income, they are higher this month on account of the higher income. We’ve also had the final invoice cleared for the Mautic Conference Europe which means we’ve paid all the remaining balances.

There were some travel costs relating to FOSDEM and State of Open Con this month, and some costs associated with sticker printing and business cards.

DescriptionAmount
Employment$17,948.56
Host fee$6.436.92
Events$1,796.06
Travel$605.37
Infrastructure$361.32
Payment processor fees$326.85
Marketing$207.48
Total$27,682.56

Contributions

A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in January!

These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community.!

🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic | 90 day report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for January 2025

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Dropsolid 349 (⬆ 65.40%)

Acquia 203 (⬆ 3.57%)

Aivie 103 (⬆ 80.70%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 96 (⬇ 15.79%)

Governikus 64

other.media 60

Friendly 48 (⬆ 26.32%)

Crafting.email 41

Hostnet 34

UpScale 32 (⬇ 64.04%)

Top contributing companies

Acquia 62 (⬆ 82.35%)

Dropsolid 23 (⬆ 91.67%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 20 (⬇ 31.03%)

UpScale 18 (⬇ 35.71%)

other.media 15

Aivie 14

Webmecanik 11 (⬆ 10%)

Comarch 8 (⬆ 100%)

Merkur 2

Trianity Ltd. 2

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community! 🫶🏻

Individuals

Most active contributors

Mike Van Hemelrijck 195

John Linhart 189

Anderson José Eccel 122

Rahul Shinde 102

Gustavo Balduino 102

Alexander Nitsche 64

Jason Woods 60

Achilles Poloynis 59

Joey Keller 47

David Jarvis 43

Top contributors

John Linhart 44

Martin Vooremäe 18

Anderson José Eccel 16

Jason Woods 15

Rahul Shinde 14

Artem Lopata 11

Patryk Gruszka 8

Rohit Pavaskar 8

Zdeno Kuzmany 8

Ekke Guembel 5

Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖

jwohlers

Frank Seidinger

jgordon

Tautvydas

Levente Bajusz

pablocard

Corey Worrell

stevenx

Alexander Nitsche

Mohammad Zare Moghadam

David Jarvis aka DJ

Precious Ihire

Susan Odii

Peace Sandy

adam.w

Top supporters

Oliver Geisen 2

jwohlers 2

pablocard 1

adam.w 1

Joey Keller 1

Mike Van Hemelrijck 1

Lenon Leite 1

Miami City Man 1

Ekke Guembel 1

jgordon 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 17 new contributors 🚀 (⬆88.89%) and 79 new members joining the community! 💖 (⬆ 21.54%).

Usage of Mautic

With the release of Mautic 6.0.0-alpha we’re now starting to see a small number of instances on this version, and a fairly stable percentage of Mautic 5 instances dominating the versions in use. We expect that this will be the case given that Mautic 5 is the Long Term Support release now, and we’re expecting to see some of the older versions starting to update over the coming months.

a graph of a number of different colored bars

In terms of the number of active instances, you can see that the trend in the number of sites sending telemetry to the updates server is going back up, and although we’re only a month into the quarter we’re on track to be continuing that growth path.

a graph with numbers and a line

Downloads over time continue to be fairly stable at around 4,000 per quarter – these are downloads via the mautic.org/download page.

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Uptake of the Mautic Trials continues to grow strongly after an expected dip in December, we are averaging at over 500 signups per month which is great to see. We are also expecting a significant donation from a recently signed client who decided to continue their hosting, which should land next month subject to contracts being completed.

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In terms of the countries taking up trials, this largely reflects our web traffic and estimated usage distribution.

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If we combine European countries we have around 18% of trial requests coming from the EU, closely followed by Brazil at 16% and India at 15%. The United States comes in at around 11% of all trial requests.

We do expect to see more coming from the EU and US in the coming months with the greater focus on data sovereignty and privacy due to legislative changes and geopolitical tensions

Community Health

This month saw a big project going live – our new website! It’s been worked on behind the scenes for the last six months and it was extremely exciting to see it finally out in the world.

I’m particularly excited that we’re finally able to position Mautic as a product and showcase its amazing features with the world. Members and partners also have much higher prominence on the new site, with a searchable database which highlights service providers in verticals and by the kinds of services offered.

We’re continuing to see growth in our contributors and active members and I’m looking forward to some exciting initiatives kicking off towards the end of this month with the Education Team – watch this space!

We also shared an update on the upcoming releases – with 6.0.0-alpha being released towards the end of the month and 5.2.2 as well, we’re now looking forward to finalising the required tasks for the 6.0.0-beta release, getting our first Extended Long Term Support release ready to launch next month, and also turning our eyes towards what’s going to be necessary for the upcoming Mautic 7 release. Read more about what to expect in the upcoming releases here.

Conclusion

We have certainly kicked the new year off in style, achieving strong growth in income and getting two new releases out into the world.

The launch of the new website is a significant milestone that positions Mautic as a product and showcases its amazing features to the world – I’m super excited to see this grow and thrive as part of the Marketing Team’s work on positioning Mautic within the market and growing our market share.

As we look forward to the upcoming releases and new initiatives from the Education Team, the community continues to expand, and the future looks bright. Let’s continue to build this awesome community together!

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Open Startup Report #22 – December 2024 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-22-december-2024 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:57:09 +0000 https://www.mautic.org/blog/ Key points
  1. Financial Summary: Mautic’s income this month was $16,428.32, with the majority coming from corporate members. The expenditure was lower at $5,663.35, primarily due to event costs and host fees.
  2. Contributions: Contributions from both organizations and individuals were strong this month, with Acquia, Dropsolid, and Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing leading the organizations, and John Linhart, Anderson José Eccel, and Martin Vooremäe among the top individual contributors.
  3. Usage of Mautic: The adoption of the 5.x version of Mautic continues to increase, now accounting for 64% of updated instances. The number of Mautic instances updating in Q4 was the second-highest ever, indicating a positive growth trend.
  4. Community Health: Despite the typical drop in contributions during the holiday season, the overall growth in contributions remains strong. The upcoming Mautic 6 release is expected to spur a flurry of activity.

Finances

I mentioned in November at Mautic Conference Europe my concerns that we were going to be facing a deficit at the end of the year if we didn’t turn things around. While we have managed to bring in some more revenue since then and have a strong pipeline for the start of 2025, the year-end financial report will provide full details of the final outcomes which includes a deficit.

Income

This month saw Webmecanik upgrading their Silver membership to Gold, and also saw a lot of individual members renewing their membership. We received the income from Mautic Conference Europe ticket sales from Stripe, and also had one individual membership refund processed from someone who didn’t realise it recurred annually and wished to cancel. Monthly sponsorship remains stable.

DescriptionAmount
Corporate members$13,934
Individual membership$694.62
Event ticket sales$1,020
Monthly sponsorship$765
Refunds$14.70
Total$16,428.32

Expenditure

This month we missed approving the invoice from Open Collective due to vacations over December, so that will appear in next month’s expenditure. Several invoices relating to Mautic Conference Europe have been paid in December, and the other expenses are as expected.

DescriptionAmount
Events$3,450.07
Host fees$1,708.31
Infrastructure$362.32
Payment processor fees$132.81
Bounty issue payout$9.84
Total$5,663.35

Contributions

A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in December!

These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community!

🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic 90 day report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for December 2024!

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Dropsolid 211 (⬇ 40.23%)

Acquia 196 (⬆ 100%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 114 (⬆ 60.56%)

UpScale 89 (⬆ 196.67%)

Aivie 57 (⬆ 54.05%)

Webmecanik 44 (⬆ 37.50%)

Friendly 38 (⬇ 19.15%)

Druid 29 (⬇ 14.71%)

Twentyzen 27

Moorwald | Sven Döring 22 (⬆ 22.22%)

Top contributing companies

Acquia 34 (⬆ 17.24%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 29 (⬆ 107.14%)

UpScale 28 (⬆ 211.11%)

Aivie 14 (⬆ 75%)

Dropsolid 12 (⬇ 61.29%)

Webmecanik 10 (⬇ 9.09%)

Druid 5 (⬆ 25%)

Comarch 4

Moorwald | Sven Döring 2

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Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

Individuals

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community 🫶🏻🙌🏻

Most active contributors

John Linhart 196

Anderson José Eccel 123

Martin Vooremäe 89

Mike Van Hemelrijck 80

Rahul Shinde 55

Ekke Guembel 44

Artem Lopata 43

Joey Keller 35

jc 32

Laurie Lim 28

Top contributors

John Linhart 34

Martin Vooremäe 28

Rahul Shinde 14

Anderson José Eccel 11

Lamin Njie 11

Artem Lopata 9

Jonas Ludwig 7

Zdeno Kuzmany 6

Laurie Lim 5

Hugo Prossaird 3

Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖

jc

EfeAkhigbe

andyg5000

Oscar Rodeiro

Holbi

Caique Portela

Daniel Oladepo

Nestor Brito Medina

Top supporters

John Linhart 2

Sascha Foerster 1

Avinash Dalvi 1

taxi 1

jc 1

Ekke Guembel 1

Ricardo Freire 1

Oscar Rodeiro 1

marcus42 1

Sven Döring 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 8 new contributors :🚀 (⬇ 40%) and 65 new members joining the community! 💖 (⬇ 10.96%).

This month is also special because it marks the end of the calendar year, so we get our annual roundup report which you can find here. For comparison, 2023 is here, 2022 is here and 2001 is here. There’ll be more in my year-end roundup, but for now here’s some stats:

2024 year-end stats

  • 1,124 new members (⬆ 21% from 885 last year)
  • 175 new contributors (⬆ 50% from 117 last year)
  • 38,044 conversations (⬆ 38% from 27,529 last year)
  • 11,874 connections between members (⬆ 62% from 7,331 last year)
  • 3,198 contributions (⬆ 12% from 2,867 last year)
  • 84 new companies engaging in the community (⬆ 20% from 105 last year)
  • 228 events on the calendar (⬆ 240% from 67 last year)

A massive thank you to every individual and organisation who have given your time to Mautic this year, without you we would not be anywhere near the progress we’re making right now. You’re all my heroes! :mautibot:

Here’s the top ten’s for the year:

2024’s most active companies

Dropsolid 4585 (⬆ 180.60%)

Acquia 2950 (⬆ 52.30%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 1379 (⬆ 28.52%)

Aivie 1030 (⬆ 78.20%)

Axelerant 765 (⬆ 313.51%)

Friendly 677 (⬇ 55.78%)

Webmecanik 674 (⬇ 29.79%)

Crafting.email 591

PreviousNext 494 (⬆ 353.21%)

Moorwald | Sven Döring 385 (⬇ 15.01%)

2024’s top contributing companies

Acquia 677 (⬆ 1.96%)

Dropsolid 560 (⬆ 137.29%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 201 (⬆ 27.22%)

Aivie 163 (⬆ 61.39%)

Webmecanik 132 (⬇ 28.65%)

Comarch 95 (⬆ 15.85%)

Axelerant 76 (⬆ 850%)

UpScale 46

Friendly 31 (⬇ 61.25%)

Crafting.email 31 (⬆ 520%)

2024’s most active individuals

John Linhart 2717

Anderson José Eccel 2028

Avinash Dalvi 1591

Mike Van Hemelrijck 1113

Rahul Shinde 929

Joey Keller 658

Ekke Guembel 612

Mattias Michaux 609

Ricardo Freire 591

Surabhi Gokte 573

2024’s top contributing individuals

John Linhart 541

Anderson José Eccel 323

Rahul Shinde 161

Zdeno Kuzmany 109

Mattias Michaux 73

Patryk Gruszka 66

Simran Sethi 60

Saurabh Gupta 53

Rembrand 49

Ekke Guembel 47

Here’s the top contribution sources:

Pull Request 1283

GitHub Pull Request Review 829

Jira Issue Completed 301

Slack – Support 247

Community Portal Calendar 252

Forums Support 128

Blog Post 52

Slack – Feedback 47

Other event 41

KB Article 11

MautiCast 6

Reddit 1

What a year! 🥳

Usage of Mautic

We are continuing to see more Mautic instances shifting from earlier versions of Mautic as the 5.x series becomes more stable, with 64% of Mautic instances updating this quarter now being on some version in the 5.x series.

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In Q4 we saw the second highest number of Mautic instances updating in all time – second only to Q2 2020. This shows a return to the higher numbers we saw back then after something of a lull in 2022-2023. This could be that more folks are getting around to updating their older instances, or that we have more live instances which are being regularly updated. Either way, the trend is in a positive direction of growth.

instances updating by quarter

It’s important to remember that the data from the stats server will never be the complete picture – many organizations will block calls to external sites through their firewall, or turn off sending the stats information entirely – but we can use it as a rough yardstick approximation for the number of active sites.

When we look at websites which have Mautic tracking deployed – remembering that this, too, is not a direct correlation of the number of live Mautic instances, because tracking from one instance can be on many domains, and some users don’t use the web tracking at all – we can see that there continues to be a positive trend of new sites deploying Mautic tracking over time The red line shows all websites that have ever had Mautic tracking deployed by quarter first discovered, and the blue line only shows those which are still known to be active.

all sites mautic tracking

This metric should only be used as a very rough approximation as it is subject to significant variations over time – for example if lots of websites using the same tracking code are deployed or removed.

Community Health

December saw our typical drop in contributions as many folks are spending time with families during holidays. That being said, we’re still seeing a strong growth in contributions if we look back even a couple of years, which is great to see.

contributions to dec 24

As we come up to the Mautic 6 release we’re expecting to see a flurry of activity, because we won’t be making any further feature releases until 7.0 due to the 6.0 release being a shorter ‘bridging release’ to help us catch up with Symfony releases.

Conclusion

In December, Mautic saw a healthy financial income of $16,867.80, primarily from corporate members, in particular, Webmecanik upgrading their membership to Gold. The expenditure was lower at $5,663.35, largely due to event costs and host fees and a missed invoice for employment expenses. The financial report for the year-end will provide full details of the final outcomes.

Contributions from organizations and individuals were robust, with Acquia, Dropsolid, and Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing leading the organizations, and John Linhart, Anderson José Eccel, and Martin Vooremäe among the top individual contributors. Despite the typical drop in contributions during the holiday season, the growth in contributions remains strong.

Mautic usage continues to grow, with the adoption of the latest 5.x version increasing. The number of instances updating in Q4 was the second-highest ever, indicating a positive growth trend. The Mautic community is looking forward to the flurry of activity expected with the upcoming Mautic 6 release. Despite the challenges of the holiday season, the community continues to grow and contribute to the development and success of Mautic. I’m excited for the coming year and grateful to everybody who has contributed to Mautic’s growth this year.

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Open Startup Report #21 – November 2024 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-21-november-2024 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:49:35 +0000 https://www.mautic.org/blog/ Key points
  1. Financial Summary: Mautic’s income this month was $5,835 with the majority coming from corporate members and Mautic Trials. However, the expenditure was significantly higher at $16,791.41, largely due to expenses related to Mautic Conference Europe and infrastructure costs.
  2. Contributions: Contributions from both organizations and individuals were strong this month, with Dropsolid, Acquia, and Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing leading the organizations, and Anderson José Eccel, Mike Van Hemelrijck, and John Linhart among the top individual contributors.
  3. Usage of Mautic: Mautic saw strong growth in the number of sites calling back to the stats server, with 10,385 Mautic instances updated this quarter. The adoption of the 5.x version is increasing, and Mautic tracking is currently installed on around 25,422 websites globally.
  4. Community Health: The number of new contributors dipped this month following the Hacktoberfest event, but the community still saw 15 new contributors and 73 new members. The Mautic Conference Europe event held in Lisbon was well received, with some great speakers (videos coming soon!)

Finances

Income

This month we saw the renewal from two Community Tier corporate members and quite a few individual members which was great! We also did a fundraising drive at Mautic Conference Europe which resulted in an income of $900 in one-time donations, several new members and discussions with two potential partners.

Our monthly sponsors dropped this month slightly due to one of our sponsors deciding to stop their ongoing contributions.

We received our first income in commissions from the Mautic Trials this month from some deals which converted in the past quarter. It was great to see the trials starting to become revenue generating, and we’ve got some other deals in the pipeline which are likely to generate some significant revenue before the end of the year.

DescriptionAmount
Corporate members$2,400
Trials$960
One-time sponsors$900
Individual members$810
Monthly sponsors$765
Total$5,835

Expenditure

This month we saw the majority of the expenses relating to Mautic Conference Europe being paid out, with a couple more invoices waiting to be finalised next month. The income from ticket sales will be received in the coming weeks also, however the event itself made a loss due to the lack of ticket sales and challenges with finding enough corporate sponsors.

We had higher than expected fees for the infrastructure working group this month for two reasons. Firstly, we came under a substantial Distributed Denial of Service attack on our Community Portal. Thankfully our budget cap on our cloud infrastructure meant that the costs did not escalate too much, but it was still more than was budgeted for the month. We also had to renew many of our domain names which came to $277.57 in total. The domain renewal costs will be factored into future budgets.

DescriptionAmount
Employment$9,325.03
Events$5,654.52
Infrastructure$696.16
Host fees$657.19
Payment processor fees$291.74
Total$16,791.41

Contributions

A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in November!

These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community!

🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic 90 days report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for November 2024!

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Dropsolid 353 (⬆ 71.36%)

Acquia 98 (⬇39.13%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 71 (⬇ 52.03%)

Friendly 47 (⬇ 11.32%)

Aivie 37 (⬇ 2.63%)

Druid 34

Webmecanik 32

UpScale 30

Matic Zagmajster s.p. 22

Moorwald | Sven Döring 18

Top contributing companies

Dropsolid 31 (⬆ 55%)

Acquia 29 (⬇ 36.96%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 14 (⬇ 6.67%)

Webmecanik 11 (⬆22.22%)

UpScale 9

Aivie 8 (⬇ 57.89%)

Friendly 5

Druid 4 (⬆ 100%)

Comarch 4

Moorwald | Sven Döring 2 (⬇ 60%)

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

Individuals

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community ✨🫶🏻🙌🏻

Most active contributors

Anderson José Eccel 183

Mike Van Hemelrijck 148

John Linhart 92

Joey Keller 43

Ekke Guembel 39

Martin Vooremäe 30

Laurie Lim 25

Lenon Leite 24

Matic Zagmeister 22

Adrian Schimpf 19

Top contributors

John Linhart 27

Anderson José Eccel 22

Martin Vooremäe 9

Rahul Shinde 8

Zdeno Kuzmany 7

Ekke Guembel 6

Emily Wood 5

Laurie Lim 4

Norman Pracht 4

Mike Van Hemelrijck 4

Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖

helloooideeeeea

Shan KS

German Mendoza

Lukas Sigel

Dorcas Opatola

Balbinder Sumbria

Anastasija Miladinovic

Ima-Abasi Effiong

waitz

ivanrojasorg

ctotech

diasse

Sandro Cícero

Mahmood

taxi

Top supporters

Ekke Guembel 3

Emily Wood 2

Norman Pracht 2

Matic Zagmeister 2

Ima-Abasi Effiong 1

Mahmood 1

Shan KS 1

waitz 1

Martin Vooremäe 1

German Mendoza 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 15 new contributors 🚀 (⬇50%) and 73 new members joining the community! 💖 (⬇ 41.60%).

Usage of Mautic

Two-thirds of the way through the quarter and we’re on track for continued strong growth in the number of sites calling back to our stats server, with 10,385 Mautic instances last updated in this quarter and 12,758 last updated last quarter.

nov 2024 active instances
Source: Stats server

If we look a the year to date we can see that during 2024 to date, 47,613 instances have been updated which is a rough indicator of the number of live instances during the year.

nov 24 updates by year
Source: Stats Server

Of course this may also include development instances, and we will not be seeing any Mautic instances behind firewalls or where the callback is turned off – so use this as an approximate measure.

The numbers for previous years are indicators of Mautic instances which most likely aren’t active any longer because they haven’t recently been updates, or they’re one of the many instances still running older versions of Mautic, so care must be taken with using these numbers as exact figures.

When it comes to the versions in use, again we base this on the data which comes to our stats server when a Mautic instance is updated – so it’ll show us the last known state of instances when they were last updated.

nov 24 versions used
Source: Stats server

You can see there’s been a strong growth in 5.x updates during 2024, which is starting to become much more dominant as new users start out with the latest 5.x release, and existing users update to Mautic 5. We expect to see a lot more users switching from 4 to 5 in the coming months as security support ends in December.

The keen eyed of you might notice this is different from the chart shown on my keynote slide in November at Mautic Conference Europe – apologies there was a filter in place which meant it was only showing a limited amount of instances with 5.x in the dataset.

In terms of websites out there in the world which are using Mautic tracking, we’re sitting at around 25,422 as detected by builtwith.com, and we’ve just topped 100,000 websites since Mautic was first launched that have had Mautic tracking enabled at some point in time.

nov 24 mautic tracking
Source: Builtwith.com

This data source too has its weaknesses, because not all Mautic instances will use the web tracking, and also some Mautic instances will be powering multiple websites, but it can be a useful yard stick as an indicator.

Going forward we’re going to be proposing a Google Summer of Code project to work on developing better metrics for us to track – as close as is possible – the actual number of active instances.

Community Health

This month we saw a dip in the number of new contributors which is to be expected following such a boom during Hacktoberfest last month, however we’re continuing to see some great new contributors coming to the surface, especially when it comes to testing of pull requests.

We’re planning a follow on campaign for Hacktoberfest and we’re trying to pick up as many new contributors as we can in our onboarding workflows. Team Leads are getting dates scheduled for formal onboarding sessions and we’re planning some workflows in the new website to help people get started with making their first contributions.

Of course we can’t leave out the great Mautic Conference Europe event we held in Lisbon, Portugal this month which I was honoured to attend and deliver the ‘Mautic Update’ keynote. It was just wonderful to meet up with Mauticians from all over the world, and I particularly appreciated that we were able to welcome Favour Chibueze, probably our longest travelled attendee who joined us from Nigeria. She has been contributing in the Education Team for several years.

While the conference and the community sprint had many highlights, I think probably my favourite memory was the amazing BBQ that Lenon Leite cooked for us in the garden of our AirBNB after the community sprint – it was great to see everyone chilled out and chatting, and we got to see a whole new side of our Security Team member when it comes to cooking on the BBQ!

We are open to suggestions for the location of our 2025 in-person conference, so if you’d like to bring Mautic’s annual event to your city just submit a proposal on the Community Portal.

Conclusion

I raised at Mautic Conference Europe that we’re facing a financial deficit this year of around $50,000 due to the shortfall in income from corporate memberships and event sponsorship. With the higher than expected outgoings this month it’s another month of spending more than we raise due to Mautic Conference Europe, however we do have some promising deals in the pipeline which we expect will see us breaking even in December.

It’s great to see the continues uptick in Mautic 5 adoption which will no doubt continue to grow with all the exciting features coming in the next release, 5.2, next month. It’s also good to see the ongoing upward adoption trends, which I’m fully expecting to continue to grow in the coming year.

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Open Startup Report #20 – October 2024 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-20-october-2024 Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:22:55 +0000 https://www.mautic.org/open-startup-report-20-october-2024/ Key points
  • Mautic has made a substantial deficit this month largely due to a lack of sponsorship income from Mautic Conference Europe which had been expected to cover the outgoing expenses.
  • There’s been a substantial increase in contributions this month thanks to our partnership with SheCodeAfrica, DevCareer and TechWriteHub who encouraged their members to contribute to Mautic.
  • Mautic ended the quarter with over 13.5k instances actively calling back to the stats server (this excludes SaaS instances and those who turn off the callback) which is the highest number since Q3 2020. Over 80% of these instances are using Mautic 4.x and around 16% are on Mautic 2 or 3.
  • Mautic Conference Europe is coming up next month with the in-person community sprint – we can’t wait to see you there!

Finances

This month we experienced a substantial deficit owing to the lack of expected income from Mautic Conference Europe sponsorships and new membership deals. While we can sustain this for now, within the next two months without significant increased income, we’re going to start to run out of funds. The Mautic Council is aware of this situation and is actively exploring revenue generation opportunities, but in the meantime you can help by becoming a member of Mautic, whether as an individual or a company, or sponsoring us via Open Collective whatever you can afford each month.

Income

Description Amount
GSoC Stipend $2,900
Monthly sponsors $900
Individual membership $300
Affiliate payment (mailfloss) $107.47
Total $4,207.47

Expenditure

Description Amount
Employment $9,161.80
Travel $2,259.05
Print (Mautic Conference Europe) $760.63
Host fees $420.75
Infrastructure $364.97
Swag $239.50
Payment processor fees $66.73
Total $13,273.43

Contributions

? You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic 90 day report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for August 2024!

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Dropsolid 206 (⬇ 2.83%)

Acquia 161 (⬇ 37.11%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 148 (⬆ 11.28%)

Crafting.email 138 (⬆ 84%)

Twentyzen 55 (⬆ 89.66%)

Friendly 53 (⬇ 14.52%)

Aivie 38 (⬆ 5.56%)

Bluespace 36

Open Strategy Partners 34

Axelerant 28

Top contributing companies

Acquia 46

Dropsolid 20 (⬆ 5.26%)

Aivie 19 (⬆ 26.67%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 15 (⬇ 40%)

Webmecanik 9

Moorwald | Sven Döring 5 (⬆ 66.67%)

Open Strategy Partners 4

Comarch 4 (⬇ 73.33%)

Crafting.email 4 (⬇ 42.86%)

Druid 2

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

Individuals

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community ????

Most active contributors

Anderson José Eccel 166

John Linhart 158

Ricardo Freire 138

Ekke Guembel 86

Favour Chibueze 66

Dirk Spannaus 55

Joey Keller 47

Dorcas Opatola 38

Mojisola Otusheso 36

Oluwatobi Owolabi 36

Top contributors

John Linhart 44

Rahul Shinde 19

Anderson José Eccel 15

Mojisola Otusheso 14

Peculiar Umeh 9

Zdeno Kuzmany 8

Laurie Lim 8

Ima-Abasi E. Effiong 7

Raffy Rodriguez 7

Favour Chibueze 6

Welcome to our new contributors this month ?

necobm

flynet70

Ife

Randy Fay

Mojisola Otusheso

Subhajit Roy

Ima-Abasi E. Effiong

Olawore Hikmah

Dog Byte Marketing

Adedayo-Olaoluwa

Nilesh Lohar

jorge73

Dorcas

fisch

Sahil Sharma

Rita Onwudiwe

ashmita_

Ayu Adiati

Toyibat Adele

Raffy Rodriguez

Kushagra Nigam

Laurie Lim

domiserver

dhavalo2

Bashua Mutiat

Christine Belzie

Jeffrey A. McGuire

miki

Top supporters

Ayu Adiati 2

domiserver 1

fisch 1

Ivan Kosutic 1

Ketu Patel 1

miki 1

Ekke Guembel 1

dhavalo2 1

Dirk Spannaus 1

markusvjh 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 30 new contributors :rocket: (⬆ 275%) and 125 new members joining the community !? (⬆ 86.57%).

Usage of Mautic

We ended the quarter with 13,526 Mautic instances calling back to the stats server, which is the highest by quarter since back in Q3 2020.

Screenshot of all active Mautic instances by quarter

If we look at the year to date figures, we’re on course for returning to the levels we last saw back in 2021 which is a strong sign that Mautic adoption is on the rise again.

Screenshot of stats by year of active Mautic instances

We continue to see over 85% of instances using the 4.x version, with around 16% still on Mautic 2-3, which adds more importance to the planned Extended Long Term Support programme, extending the period in which Mautic instances can receive security fixes via a paid program.

I’m excited to see the impact that our new website and marketing campaigns will have on adoption of Mautic – more on that in the keynote at Mautic Conference Europe next week!

Community Health

This month we’ve seen a phenomenal response to our Hacktoberfest program, mainly due to partnering with three awesome organisations – SheCodeAfrica, DevCareer and WriteTechHub who encouraged contributors to get involved with some of the tasks Mautic had to offer.

Our team was somewhat overwhelmed with:

  • 376 passionate contributors signing up
  • 43 non-code contributions completed
  • Numerous PR tests, reviews and content tasks completed

This is represented by the large growth in new contributors this month – it’s great to welcome you all into the community!

We’ve learned a lot about onboarding contributors during this process, and we’re going to think about how to put this into practice for our day-to-day onboarding process so that we can streamline the process.

Next month we have our Mautic Conference Europe event which so far has less attendance than we were hoping for – however we’re excited to be bringing the community together and holding our first conference in Portugal, followed by our Community Sprint and Council.

Conclusion

The Mautic community has seen significant growth this month, particularly due to the successful Hacktoberfest program. The collaboration with SheCodeAfrica, DevCareer, and WriteTechHub has resulted in a surge of new contributors, providing the Mautic team with valuable insights about onboarding contributors. These insights will be used to streamline the onboarding process, fostering a more active and engaging community.

However, Mautic is continuing to face financial challenges. The income this month was significantly lower than the expenditure, leading to a financial deficit. Despite these challenges, I’m hopeful and excited about the upcoming Mautic Conference Europe. This event is an opportunity to bring the community together, share knowledge, and foster stronger relationships. I’m also looking forward to the impact that the new website and marketing campaigns will have on the adoption of Mautic.

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Open Startup Report #19 – September 2024 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-19-september-2024 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:57:00 +0000 https://www.mautic.org/open-startup-report-19-september-2024/ Key points
  • Mautic made a small profit this month largely due to the sponsorships for Mautic Conference Europe, however these funds are already allocated for the event costs, so there is a deficit if these funds are discounted. With the financial end of year approaching, the dwindling financial reserves are a cause for concern
  • There’s a stead growth in new contributors, with 8 new contributors and 67 new members joining this month, however we still want to see more active involvement from folks around the world to build a truly sustainable project.
  • We’ve introduced some new ways of tracking, as close as we can, the number of Mautic instances ‘in the wild’ which shows just over 15,000 active instances calling back to the stats server this quarter (not including SaaS instances and where the callback is turned off)
  • We’re still seeing a strong interest in the Mautic Trials with 400-500 signups each month, and we’re working to improve their experience. Some are now starting to convert into new customers which will mean some contributions coming back to Mautic.
  • We made a security and bugfix release this month for 5.x and 4.x.
  • There’s some exciting projects on the horizon including Hacktoberfest and Mautic Conference Europe which will feature the first ever Mautic Awards event!

    Finances

This month we’ve marginally made a profit due to the sponsorship income for Mautic Conference Europe, however these funds are already allocated to cover the cost of the event venue and catering, so we actually have experienced a large deficit this month if we discount those funds.

As we approach the end of the financial year this is becoming quite a worry, as we are running out of ‘reserve funds’ to cover the reduced income from the Mautic Trials and lower than expected sponsorships for our two main conferences.

Income

Description Amount
Event sponsorship $10,250
Corporate membership $1,200
Monthly sponsors $1100
Individual membership $450
Refund of payment processor fees $18.51
Total $13,018.51

Expenditure

Description Amount
Employment $8,977.59
Infrastructure $2,077.34
Host fees $1,300
Payment processor fees $567.23
Postage $36.38
Travel $32.33
Total $12,990.87

Contributions

? You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic 90 day report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for September 2024!

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Acquia 256 (⬆ 236.84%)

Dropsolid 212 (⬆1.44%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 133 (⬆ 114.52%)

Crafting.email 75 (⬆ 70.45%)

Friendly 62 (⬆ 19.23%)

Webmecanik 56 (⬆ 24.44%)

Aivie 36 (⬆ 16.13%)

Twentyzen 29

Comarch 25

Matic Zagmajster s.p. 21 (⬇ 16%)

Top contributing companies

Acquia 46 (⬆ 142.11%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 25 (⬆ 257.14%)

Dropsolid 19 (⬇ 55.81%)

Comarch 15 (⬆ 66.67%)

Aivie 15 (⬇ 25%)

Crafting.email 7

Friendly 5 (⬇ 28.57%)

Moorwald | Sven Döring 3

Axelerant 3

Rush Agência 2

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community! ????

Individuals

Most active contributors

John Linhart 247

Anderson José Eccel 169

Bill F 95

Ricardo Freire 75

Lenon Leite 66

Joey Keller 62

Ekke Guembel 54

Zdeno Kuzmany 31

Dirk Spannaus 29

Favour Chibueze 28

Top contributors

John Linhart 42

Rahul Shinde 15

Patryk Gruszka 13

Anderson José Eccel 13

Lenon Leite 13

Ricardo Freire 7

putzwasser 7

Aleks0129 5

Ekke Guembel 5

Artem Lopata 5

Welcome to our new contributors this month ?

Damian.

Emily Wood

Antonio Lazzari

Kirsi Vatanen

ruman-webmaster

ichiko

kingfisher

Aleks0129

Top supporters

John Linhart 7

Joey Keller 4

Favour Chibueze 2

Ricardo Freire 2

Lenon Leite 1

Anderson José Eccel 1

Zdeno Kuzmany 1

Oluwatobi Owolabi 1

Mauro Chojrin 1

Patryk Gruszka 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 8 new contributors ? (⬇ 20%) and 67 new members joining the community !? (⬇ 5.63%).

Usage of Mautic

This month we’ve introduced some new charts which we’re creating from data that is collected on the Mautic stats server. Mautic instances ‘call home’ to this server, unless it’s turned off in the configuration file or set to call back to an internal source, such as in the case of SaaS providers. For this reason the data is going to be somewhat incomplete as it will exclude SaaS providers, and it may include a small number of test instances used when reviewing bug fixes and features.

The data we receive provides us with some very high level, anonymised information including the version of Mautic in use, the operating system and PHP version in use, etc.

A chart showing the number of active instances of Mautic over time. There's a large dip in 2021 and it's starting to go back up now.

This chart shows us the number of Mautic instances that are ‘calling home’ by quarter that they last checked for updates.

This tells us that this quarter we’ve had just over 15,000 active Mautic instances calling back to the stats server, and that while we had quite a dip during 2021 in active sites, this seems to be reversing with a lot more Mautic instances coming on stream.

The following chart tells us the difference in the number of active Mautic instances calling home each quarter, so we can track whether there’s more or less active instances each quarter.

A chart showing the net difference in instances calling back to the stats server. It's generally trending upwards.

We continue to see strong interest in the Mautic trials with an average of 400-500 trials requested each month. We’re also now starting to see some of those trials converting into paying customers, which is great news for the Mautic project as we receive a 40% commission on all sales for the first year, which decays over the following years. These transactions should start to appear during Q4 2024.

Community Health

September saw Mautic making a bug and security fix release – 5.1.1 – and a back-ported security release for the 4.x series, 4.4.13. The release team are extremely short handed and are proactively inviting applications from developers who may wish to give back to Mautic by learning to become a release leader alongside an experienced member of the core team.

Work is well underway to prepare for Mautic Conference Europe and it’s shaping up to be a great event – we’re really looking forward to seeing many of you in Lisbon in November. This has included onboarding an apprentice through a platform the Council are trialling who is focused on marketing to help the Marketing Team specifically with growing the awareness and marketing for both the Mautic Conference Europe event and the first Mautic Awards event..

We’re also busy preparing for next month’s Hacktoberfest event where we’re hoping to bring many new contributors into Mautic to work on both code and no-code tasks.

Lots of exciting things coming up on the horizon!

Conclusion

While the financial concerns are a significant worry, Mautic continues to grow both in adoption and new contributors joining the community. We’re greatly looking forward to the upcoming events, Mautic Conference Europe and Hacktoberfest, and the first ever Mautic Awards.

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Open Startup Report #18 – August 2024 https://mautic.org/blog/open-startup-report-18-august-2024 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:28:48 +0000 https://www.mautic.org/open-startup-report-18-august-2024/ Key points
  • Mautic almost broke even financially this month thanks to annual membership renewals and sales from Mautic Conference Global but our goal is to build a stable financial base, so efforts are being made to secure more memberships and sponsorships.
  • The community continues to grow, with 9 new contributors this month and 71 new members joining the community, however we would like to see more engagement from local communities, particularly around starting up local meetup groups
  • There were over 400 requests for trials this month with most coming from Brazil, the EU, USA and India.
  • Preparations are underway for the upcoming 5.2 release with a number of exciting new features on the cards.

Finances

This month we’re just about breaking even thanks to some annual membership renewals and the income from ticket sales for Mautic Conference Global. We have invested for a quarter in a system which enables us to have an apprentice working with our marketing team as we’re struggling with sustaining the level of contribution in that team, which is so far working really well.

We do need to be focusing on building up a strong financial base, so just breaking even isn’t really where we want to be, but it’s better than being in a deficit. We’re still working hard on outreach to potential members and for sponsorships for the upcoming Mautic Conference Europe as well, to help boost our available funds.

Income

Description Amount
Corporate membership $9,000
Event ticket sales $2,302.47
Monthly sponsors $1,300
Individual membership $900
Refund of Host Fee $10
Cover of payment processor fee $4.70
Total: $13,517.17

Expenditure

Description Amount
Employment $9,000.50
Host fees $1,120
Acadium $997
Travel & Expenditure $982.41
Payment processor fees $530.32
Legal $414
Infrastructure $366.39
Refund $100
Website rebuild $44.68
Total: $13,555.30

Contributions

? You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic 90 day report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for August 2024!

⬆ = Increase from last month
⬇ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Dropsolid 209 (⬇ 44.71%)

Acquia 76 (⬇ 63.64%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 62 (⬇ 62.20%)

Friendly 52 (⬆ 40.54%)

Webmecanik 45 (⬆ 104.55%)

Crafting Email 44 (⬇ 38.03%)

Leeway Academy 41

Aivie 31

Matic Zagmajster s.p. 25 (⬇ 13.79%)

Comarch 25 (⬆ 4.17%)

Top contributing companies

Dropsolid 43 (⬇ 51.14%)

Aivie 20

Acquia 19 (⬇ 72.06%)

Comarch 9 (⬇ 25%)

Friendly 7

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 7 (⬇ 72%)

Webmecanik 5 (⬇ 58.33%)

escuelita.dev 3

Leeway Academy 2

SimplyPrint 2

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community ????

Individuals

Most active contributors

Anderson José Eccel 159

John Linhart 68

Joey Keller 52

Ricardo Freire 44

Ekke Guembel 42

Mauro Chojrin 41

Norman Pracht 36

Renato Carabelli 35

Bill F 30

Matic Zagmeister 25

Top contributors

Anderson José Eccel 30

Rahul Shinde 20

John Linhart 14

Rembrand 8

Joey Keller 7

Priyanshi Gaur 7

Patryk Gruszka 6

Abhisek Mazumdar 5

Zdeno Kuzmany 4

Bastian2718 4

Welcome to our new contributors this month ?

Bishal Jena

Thomas Mueller

David

Mauricio Etcheverry

Bastian2718

Javad

Shafique

annusdomini

markusvjh

Alejandro Guerrero

Top supporters

Anderson José Eccel 2

Joey Keller 1

ncmon 1

Ekke Guembel 1

Favour Chibueze 1

annusdomini 1

markusvjh 1

John Linhart 1

Mauro Chojrin 1

Alejandro Guerrero 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 9 new contributors ? (⬇ 54.55%) and 71 new members joining the community !? (⬇ 37.17%).

Usage of Mautic

This month we had just over 400 requests for a trial of Mautic which is remaining pretty steady month-on-month.

In terms of the geographic distribution, we have a new pivot table and chart in the Open Startup Metrics – Mautic – Google Sheets which shows the top three countries are Brazil, with 16.7% of the requests, followed by India at 14.8% and the United States with 11.4%. However, if we consider all the countries in the European Union as one, this tops out the list with 17.69%.

A pie chart showing country breakdown of all trial users.

There have been some promising conversations with users of the trials, which have a strong potential to become income via our 40% commission – this is likely to start coming through next month.

We had a large spike in web traffic on the mautic.org website in Q2 which resulted in a very large increase in visitors, this is now returning to normal levels however we see sustained spam attacks on both the Forums and the Community Portal which are largely being mitigated by built-in spam protection systems.

The new chart which I introduced last month to show both the cumulative-and-still-active and all-time-cumulative-including-now-active sites with Mautic tracking has seen a substantial drop in the total number of sites actively using Mautic tracking. This is because of the large domain name parking provider was detected as having removed tracking from their entire estate last month, causing an extremely large drop in sites using Mautic tracking.

A chart showing a red and blue line which indicates the number of active all time and currently active sites tracking using Mautic's tracking code.

This further demonstrates the need to expand our statistic gathering.

Community Health

This month we’ve seen continued activity in preparing for the upcoming 5.2 release, with a lot of exciting new features being tested and merged.

We’re also preparing for next month’s bugfix release of 5.1.1 which is seeing several bugs being fixed that have been identified in the 5.1 release, alongside some longer standing issues which have been tested and reviewed this month.

Contributions continue to grow each month which is great to see, with some expected bumps taking into account vacation periods.

A chart showing a line graph of all contributions, it's quite bumpy and goes up a lot towards the last year.

We’re also continuing to see a good balance between new and returning members, which is a sign of a healthy community.

Chart showing green, blue and dark blue lines showing the number of active, new and returning members.

We’re not seeing so much engagement from our local communities as we would like – especially when it comes to organising local meetups and MautiCamps, but the Community Team is planning a reboot to focus on this aspect in the coming months.

Conclusion

It’s been a positive month in terms of funding, with a major corporate membership renewal upgrading to the next tier, however we’re still only just about breaking even which is not the position we want to be in.

More focus needs to be on both increasing our monthly income and ensuring that we’re reducing our outgoing costs accordingly.

That being said, it’s great to see the sustained involvement of contributors and a positive growth in terms of new people joining the project.

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