Read the previous reports here for Q3 2023, Q2 2023, Q1 2023, Q4 2022, Q3 2022, Q2 2022 and Q1 2022.

Project governance updates

This was a busy quarter when it comes to governance, as many projects came to completion and we have made great progress.

Back in October our new Community Portal – the central place to go for all things community, governance, decision making and more – came out of beta testing and was launched at https://community.mautic.org. The portal uses an open source tool called Decidim, and you can log in using your existing forum user account or create a new account directly.

We’ve had over 140 people join the portal to date and it’s already providing much-needed visibility into what’s happening around the community.

Read more about the new portal in our blog post: Introducing Mautic’s New Community Portal: Your Hub for Collaboration and Engagement.

Once the portal was launched the next step was organising the nominations for our core governance body, the Mautic Council. Mauticians needed to be an individual member of Mautic in order to nominate themselves, and we had a great response to the call for nominations, with 10 people stepping up to represent Mautic as a Council member.

Members of Mautic then had a round of voting for their preferred candidates, with 7 votes per person (as there are 7 places on the Council). At the end of the voting period, the seven highest voted candidates became Council members, with terms being staggered according to our Governance Model.

Learn more about the elected candidates in our blog post: Mautic announces its first community-elected Council and get to know the members on our Council page: Meet the Mautic Council.

The Council was formally inaugurated and the new Governance Model adopted in our Extraordinary General Meeting of the Mautic General Assembly on the 18th December 2023.

A huge thank you to everybody who stood for election, voted, and supported this process. I am proud to see Mautic moving forward as an independent open source project and look forward to working with the Council to continue driving Mautic’s growth.

News from the community

As well as the governance work, there’s been a lot going on the community and the wider marketing industry.

In February, some changes are being introduced by Gmail and Yahoo which mean that bulk senders must now also provide a header with their emails which allows the user to unsubscribe with one click, and is less prone to being clicked by bots than the current methods. We talked about this some months back in our blog post, but in the 5.0 and 4.4.11 releases we implemented the necessary headers for Mautic to take care of this for you.

More changes came when our security reporting and bounty system, huntr.dev, stopped supporting open source projects that were not involved with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. This meant that we both needed to implement a new system for bounties, and also that we needed to change our confidential reporting system for security issues.

Happily this coincided with GitHub releasing new features for maintainers to receive security reports directly through the GitHub repository in a private and secure manner, so we have implemented this workflow. Read more about that in the blog post: Mautic Adopts GitHub’s Private Security Reporting System for Vulnerability Reporting.

On Giving Tuesday we announced our annual ‘Back your Stack‘ initiative where we use a percentage of our annual budget to support the open source projects we depend on.

This year we decided to support five projects with a larger sum – these projects are:

• Rector
• PHPStan
• Guzzle
• Composer
• Doctrine

Finally this quarter we concluded the RFP process we started last quarter to find a provider for our Trials project. After a thorough process we selected the proposal from Dropsolid for a three year term. It is expected that this will launch towards the end of Q1 2024 and will bring a revenue stream to the community from those who decide to continue with the hosted service after the trial completes.

Product updates

Of course we can’t wrap up this quarter without reporting on the phenomenal work that has been done to get Mautic 5 ready for release.

We made the Beta and Release Candidate this quarter, and after 200+ contributions from the founder of Rector to help remove older code and modernise many areas of our codebase, we made the Release Candidate 2 for final testing. The General Availability release was made just into the new year, on 9th January – so more on that in the next quarterly report!

We also announced the formation of the User Experience and User Interface (UX/UI) Tiger Team, headed up by Anderson Eccel and Mike van Hemelrijck and sponsored by Dropsolid. Their first project is to be working on a redesign of Mautic’s user interface, much needed to bring us up to date with modern standards and improve our accessibility.

Financial updates

This quarter has seen strong growth in membership since we launched the Community Portal, with several corporate members joining and many new individual members supporting Mautic.

Regular monthly sponsorships are also relatively stable, with some reductions as organisations become members and therefore commit to an annual payment rather than monthly.

This quarter we had an income of $61,909.20 and our expenditures were $33,570.76. While we ended the year with a positive balance of $67,714.82 we did not reach the fundraising targets that we had set for the year, so we have work to do in 2024 to ensure we reach financial stability.

Read the Open Startup reports for more detail:

Mautic Open Startup Report #7 – October 2023 – Mautic Community

Mautic Open Startup Report #8 – November 2023 – Mautic Community

Mautic Open Startup Report #9 – December 2023 – Mautic Community

Let’s look at the numbers

This quarter we had 383 active members in our community, slightly down from the previous quarter but aligned with the usual drop over the festive season.

There were 707 contributions during the quarter from 74 contributors, which represents a strong growth against the previous quarter. Over 100 of these came from one contributor, Tomas Votruba from Rector, who single-handedly worked tirelessly over several weeks on removing outdated code and improving Mautic’s codebase. It’s great to see this continued growth in contributions as more and more people step up to give back to Mautic in whatever way they can. Thank you to everybody who has contributed to Mautic this quarter!

Most active members

Avinash Dalvi 353

John Linhart 332

Tomas Votruba 281

Mattias Michaux 251

Joey Keller 168

Surabhi Gokte 155

Zdeno Kuzmany 149

Rahul Shinde 130

Norman Pracht 129

Anderson José Eccel 113

Most engaged members

Joey Keller 86

Norman Pracht 74

John Linhart 72

Matic Zagmeister 54

Dirk Spannaus 50

Robin Tindall 50

Stefan Franz 38

Ekke Guembel 32

Zdeno Kuzmany 30

Bill F 30

Top contributors

John Linhart 168

Tomas Votruba 107

Zdeno Kuzmany 47

Mattias Michaux 36

Anderson José Eccel 26

Joey Keller 14

Oluwatobi Owolabi 13

Patryk Gruszka 12

Patrick Jenkner 12

Anna Munk 10

Most active companies

Dropsolid 467

Acquia 371

Webmecanik 333

RectorPHP 281

Friendly 168

Axelerant 159

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 136

Codefive 130

Devsadda 130

PreviousNext 108

Top contributing companies

Acquia 187

RectorPHP 107

Dropsolid 73

Webmecanik 67

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 30

Comarch 25

Friendly 14

Bluespace 13

Devsadda 9

Codefive 5

Looking forward

• Mautic is being represented at several major events next quarter, including having a stand at FOSDEM – the largest event in Europe for open source developers – and State of Open Con in London along with sessions at FOSS Backstage.
• Our next in-person conference is coming up in February in India with over 100 attendees expected to join us to learn more about Mautic and get involved in contributing during the community contribution day
• The Mautic Trials project is due to launch in Q1 which will bring another revenue stream to the community while also allowing people to quickly get started with Mautic
• We are making good progress on attracting new members but we need more individual and corporate members to enable our future growth. This will be a major focus of the coming months.

Read the previous reports here for Q2 2023, Q1 2023, Q4 2022, Q3 2022, Q2 2022 and Q1 2022.

Project governance updates

• We have now successfully transferred all trademarks and domain names from Acquia to Open Source Collective, which are now held on behalf of the Mautic project.

• After extensive discussion and revisions in the Governance Working Group, a new Governance model was proposed which was reviewed and adopted by the existing Community Council.

• The new governance model focuses on a precise approach towards decision making, with the General Assembly and Council established as the key decision making bodies.

• We have launched membership tiers providing individuals and organizations the opportunity to be part of the Mautic community through several different ways including practical (individual only) and financial contributions.

• We continue to share Open Startup reports every month which can be reviewed here: https://www.mautic.org/tag/open-startup.

News from the community

• The Mautic Developer Days and Community Sprint took place successfully in July 2023 in Vienna, with various teams working on a range of community growth projects alongside Mautic 5 work.

• The Community is consistently growing, with new members signing up and growing contributions even though there was a slight slowdown owing to the holiday season.

• New local meetups are getting started in Barcelona, Spain, and Douala, Cameroon, boosting local engagement and building enthusiasm in these regions.

• The introduction of the General Assembly and a new tier-based membership model has been positively received by the community, fuelling growth and collaboration.

Product updates

• The Mautic 5.0 alpha version saw extensive testing and bug-fixing during the Developer Days and during Open Source Friday sprints, focusing on  implementing Symfony Mailer and Messenger as well as dealing with other deprecations and regressions that have been picked up in testing. A revised timeline to release has just been announced with the aim being that the General Availability will be launched at the beginning of November.

• Mautic is experiencing a steady rise in its downloads and its prevalence is growing with many more websites including Mautic tracking over the last quarter.

• A new community portal has been established to facilitate better collaboration a more transparent decision making, with the intention to centralize all things community and replace other existing proprietary tools for things like meetups.  This is due to launch in the coming weeks.

Financial updates

• The Mautic community has notably doubled the amount of financial supporters compared to the same period last year.

• Acquia began providing financial contributions, boosting income which has offset some delays in receiving funds through GitHub sponsors.

• The newly launched membership model brought in several individual and corporate members, supplementing Mautic’s income. This will be a primary focus in the coming quarter as we move towards financial independence.

• Multiple new revenue streams are being established to support the community’s ongoing growth, including the establishing of a new official trial provider which will be launching next quarter, and providing a revenue share back to the community for any converted paying customers.

Let’s look at the numbers

We’ve had 455 active members this quarter,  which represents around 12% reduction on last quarter.  Numbers are however remaining relatively stable in the longer term,  whereas ideally we want to see this growing where we have a lot more members being active each quarter. We’re starting to work on this in the marketing team, and would value your help and ideas!

We’ve seen our traditional dip in contributions over the summer months which has impacted this quarter somewhat, however we still have had 474 contributions this quarter from 74 Contributors, 31 of whom were new contributors.

Most active contributors

Over the last 90 days the most active contributors (based on the number of conversations) have been:

Joey Keller    317
Jan Linhart    295
Mattias Michaux    192
Robin Tindall    132
Ekke Guembel    111
Bill F    110
Matic Zagmeister    91
Zdeno Kuzmany    88
Sven Döring    83
Michael Wolman    70

Most engaged contributors

Our most engaged contributors (based on the number of connections they have made with others in the community) have been:

Joey Keller    275
Michael Wolman    146
Jan Linhart    145
Dirk Spannaus    122
Robin Tindall    115
Matic Zagmeister    110
Norman Pracht    105
Mohammed Abu Musa    91
Zdeno Kuzmany    80
Oluwatobi Owolabi    79

Top contributors

Our top contributors this quarter (based on the number of contributions they have made) have been:

Jan Linhart    99
Mattias Michaux    47
Zdeno Kuzmany    37
Joey Keller    18
Volha Pivavarchyk    17
Patryk Gruszka    13
Patrick Jenkner    13
Dennis Ameling    10
Robert Parker    9
Tomas Votruba    8

Most active companies

The companies who were most active in the Mautic Community (based on the number of conversations) are:

Acquia 345
Friendly 317
Dropsolid 226
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 222
Webmecanik 164
Lead Genius 132
Matic Zagmajster s.p. 91
Moorwald | Sven Döring 83
Surge Media 70
Aivie 67

Top contributing companies

The companies who are contributing the most to the Mautic Community (based on the number of contributions) are:

Acquia 117
Dropsolid 53
Webmecanik 44
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 39
Aivie 25
Friendly 18
Comarch 18
rectorphp 8
Matic Zagmajster s.p. 6
Surge Media 4

Looking forward

• Implementation of the new governance structure in full swing with all the necessary infrastructure, tooling, and workflows are being put into place.

• Expect a surge in community participation and financial contributions due to the newly launched membership model.

• In light of various challenges and platform fees, Mautic is considering moving solely to Open Collective for fund collections.

• In November we are expecting the rollout of the General Availability Mautic 5.0 release.

• Mautic aims to sustain its growth trajectory by attracting more individual and organizational members, increasing product adoption, and uplifting its impact within the business ecosystem.

Read the previous reports here for Q1 2023, Q4 2022, Q3 2022, Q2 2022 and Q1 2022.

Q2 has brought an unprecedented amount of change to the Mautic Community, let’s dive into how that is impacting the project.

Project governance updates

Becoming an independent project

The biggest announcement was of course that Mautic has become an independent open source project.

You can read more about this in our blog post, and posts on Project Lead Ruth Cheesley’s blog and Dries Buytaert’s blog.

Associated with this has been the process of determining the new governance model and subsequently, after much debate and discussion, adopting the new model which is currently being implemented.

Open Startup reporting

Mautic has started to provide more transparency on our progress and finances through our Open Startup reporting.

Read more about Open Startup reporting in our blog, and check our reports for April, May and June.

We won an award!

In June we were delighted to hear that Mautic had won the Marketing Automation award in the 20i FOSS Awards. A huge thank you to everyone who voted for us!

Request for proposals – Trial Provider

In June we issued a request for proposals to provide a hosted trial of the open source Mautic product to people who are new to Mautic.

We had a positive response to the RFP and the team are currently reviewing the proposals.

Mautic 5 alpha is launched!

The moment everyone has been waiting for! On 26th June we released the Mautic 5.0 alpha for early pre-release testing. There is no upgrade path for this version and it should only be used in a development environment.

The beta release is due on 26th July. Check the timelines for the upcoming releases here.

Mautic Conference Global 2023 ?

We had another successful Mautic Conference Global event with training sessions, sessions and keynotes alongside opportunities to network with other Mauticians from around the world. Read more in our blog post.

Let’s look at the numbers

This quarter we have exceeded 7,000 members in the community, with 515 active members –  an increase of around 13% on last quarter.

We are continuing to see a steady growth in contributions this quarter following on from the strong start at the beginning of the year.

Most active contributors

Over the last 90 days the most active contributors (based on the number of conversations) have been:

John Linhart 663
Mohammed Abu Musa    552
Joey Keller    524
Mattias Michaux    383
Dirk Spannaus    160
Sven Döring    155
Zdeno Kuzmany    135
Norman Pracht    125
Lenon Leite    92
Daniel Lord    91

Most engaged contributors

Our most engaged contributors (based on the number of connections they have made with others in the community) have been:

Joey Keller    150
Dirk Spannaus    99
Jan Linhart Acquia Staff    69
Ionuţ Ojică    64
Michael Wolman    55
Mohammed Abu Musa    50
Norman Pracht 49
Oluwatobi Owolabi    48
Daniel Lord    36
Dwayne Taylor    36

Top contributors

Our top contributors this quarter (based on the number of contributions they have made) have been:

John Linhart 209
Mohammed Abu Musa 145
Mattias Michaux 50
Zdeno Kuzmany 34
Volha Pivavarchyk 25
Artem Lopata 24
Miroslav Fedeleš 22
Lenon Leite 21
Joey Keller 20
Oluwatobi Owolabi 17

Most active companies

The companies who were most active in the Mautic Community (based on the number of conversations) are:

Acquia 776
Steer Campaign 552
Friendly  528
Dropsolid 470
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 306
Webmecanik 270
TwentyZen 169
Moorwald | Sven Döring 155
Codefive 102
Texthelp 97

Top contributing companies

The companies who are contributing the most to the Mautic Community (based on the number of contributions) are:

Acquia 250
Steer Campaign 145
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 69 
Dropsolid 66
Webmecanik 40 
Aivie 28
Codefive 21
Friendly 20
Bluespace 17
Moorwald | Sven Döring 13

Conclusion

It has been fantastic to see the energy and excitement around becoming an independent open source project. The discussions and debate that we have had around the future governance of the project have resulted in some positive changes which I’m looking forward to being implemented in the coming months. 

As we are now going into much more detail on a monthly basis in our open startup reports, I’m going to remove the financial aspects on this report,  as you can follow them more closely on a monthly basis and check directly on the spreadsheet or on Open Collective itself if you want to dive into the detail.

Thanks as always to everyone who has stepped up to support Mautic whether it be through practical contributions or financial donations!

Read the previous reports here for Q4 2022, Q3 2022, Q2 2022 and Q1 2022.

Q1 2023 Sponsors Shoutout

A big thank you to the sponsors who have supported us this quarter on GitHub Sponsors or Open Collective:

Over $100/mo

Webmecanik

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing

Aivie

Droptica

Comarch SA

Dropsolid

WebAnyOne

Audienceware

Friendly

Media Giant Design

Sales Snap

AWISEE

awisee.agency

Ferienhausmiete.de

Up.mass

EaseUS

Akaunting

Powertic

Under $100/mo

NuCamp

Ruth Cheesley

John Linhart

Avinash Dalvi

BSF.company

Roundabout Media

John R White

Dirk Spannaus

Norma Ochoa

Henry Wisemann

Dnetworkbr

WMD Soluções Digitais

SpiderDev9

One-time sponsors

Guest ($20)

Guest ($5)

Yosu Cadilla ($5)

モトキ ($5)

We really do appreciate all your contributions – please check if you have in the past contributed on GitHub Sponsors, as a recent change which removed PayPal as a billing method has caused several sponsors to lapse.

Community Team update

Mautic Conference Global 2023 is go!

Over the weekend we closed the Call for Speakers and I’m excited to see the great range of sessions that have been proposed.

The new website has also launched – big thanks to our website hosting sponsors, Siteground.

We are looking for volunteers in the following areas:

• Designers – to help us design everything from the backdrops on the stage to the forum badges for attendees and speakers to images for social media. Join us on Slack in #design and #mauticon and let us know if you want to be involved!
• Track leads – to run a set of sessions as MC, introducing the speaker, managing the Q&A process and generally keeping the sessions flowing smoothly.
   
• Support team – to help on the day with managing the chat, responding to any questions and escalating any problems to the team
   
• Video team – to help with rendering the session videos after the event

Education Team update

Finalizing the new end-user documentation

We have made great progress with the new end-user documentation, with the last few sections being reviewed and merged as we speak.

Translators have already started helping to make the documentation available in other languages through our integration with Transifex – if you would like to help with this you will find the project here. Drop us a line in #translations on Slack if you need an invitation to the team.

We plan to launch this with Mautic 5.

Product Team update

Mautic 5 progress

We continue to make good progress with the work needing to be done to update to Symfony 5.

We have now completed the huge task of completely refactoring every view that is used in Mautic from PHP templates to Twig – a big thanks to everyone who has helped with this project.

Now the team are working on removing old code which will no longer be supported with Symfony 5, and also finalising the work on the new message processing plugins using Symfony Mailer and Symfony Messenger.

We do need your help, as Mautic users, in testing these important updates. Every Friday we have our Open Source Friday sprints where you can step into the #t-product channel and help with testing new features and bug fixes. You will also always find the pinned issue at github.com/mautic/mautic/issues with a list of things that we want to focus on getting tested.

Transition of leadership

When we first formed the governance model back at the end of 2019, we decided that Team Lead roles would have a term of three years. 

Norman Pracht, General Manager of Webmecanik, has done a fantastic job of establishing the Product Team and leading Mautic through these formative years, and with our great thanks, will be stepping back as Product Team Lead from the beginning of next month.

Mattias Michaux, Lead Product Architect at Dropsolid, will be taking over as Product Team Lead after a period of transition where Norman will support Mattias as Assistant Team Lead. I am sure that you will all extend Mattias a warm welcome!

I would like to extend my thanks and appreciation to Norman for all of his dedication and enthusiasm to Mautic, and to Webmecanik for enabling Norman to have the time and resources to support the Mautic project. I am sure that we would not be where we are today if it wasn’t for your continual drive to improve Mautic for our users.

Let’s look at the numbers

It has been a great quarter, with ongoing growth in both the number of people who are participating in the community and also those who are taking the time to contribute and make the Mautic project and community even more awesome. It won’t be long before we exceed 7,000 members who have actively participated in the community!

We’ve had 457 active members this quarter, down slightly from 465 last quarter.

We continue to see growth in contributions across the project, and we have been able to make progress in several areas as a result.

Most active contributors

Over the last 90 days the most active contributors (based on the number of conversations) have been:
 

Mohammed Abu Musa575

Joey Keller471

Jan Linhart315

Oluwatobi Owolabi147

Sven Döring146

Bill F145

Ekke Guembel112

Yosu Cadilla107

Joshua Estes105

Norman Pracht100

Read more about what is defined as a contribution here.

Most engaged contributors

Our most engaged contributors (based on the number of connections they have made with others in the community) have been:

Joey Keller324

Jan Linhart168

Norman Pracht141

Michael Wolman135

Mohammed Abu Musa130

Zdeno Kuzmany109

Adrian84

Bill F75

Oluwatobi Owolabi71

Dennis Ameling71

Top contributors

Our top contributors this quarter (based on the number of contributions they have made) have been:

Jan Linhart128

Mohammed Abu Musa105

Joshua Estes65

Zdeno Kuzmany30

Joey Keller30

Mattias Michaux21

Rembrand19

Oluwatobi Owolabi16

Norman Pracht15

Volha Pivavarchyk14

Most active companies

The companies who were most active in the Mautic Community (based on the number of conversations) are:

Acquia 1461

Steer Campaign 576

Friendly 473

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 201

Aivie 178

Webmecanik 172

Dropsolid 161

Bluespace 147

Moorwald | Sven Döring 146

Lowcost.marketing 107

Top contributing companies

The companies who are contributing the most to the Mautic Community (based on the number of contributions) are:

Acquia 203

Steer Campaign 105

SonsOfPHP 65

Webmecanik 45

Dropsolid 45

Friendly 31

Comarch 30

Aivie 22

Bluespace 16

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 13

Conclusion

It has been great to see a lot of energy and progress being made in several teams across the Mautic community this last quarter, with several key projects coming nearer to completion.

We have some exciting times ahead, and I’m looking forward to a continued trend of growth!

Read the previous reports here for Q3 2022, Q2 2022 and Q1 2022.

Q4 2022 sponsors shoutout

A big thank you to the sponsors who have supported us this quarter on GitHub Sponsors or Open Collective:

Over $100/mth

Webmecanik

Aivie

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing

Friendly

Up.mass

Akaunting

Droptica

Dropsolid

Web Any One

Powertic

SMC

AudienceWare

Media Giant Design

Sales Snap

Comarch SA

Ferienhausmiete.de

Might.ch

EaseUS

Awisee

Under $100/mth

Avinash Dalvi

Dirk Spannaus

Joey Keller

Roundabout Media

Jan Linhart

Ruth Cheesley

DT Network

Spiderdev9

BSF.company

Henry Weismann

Wmd Solucoes Digitais Eireli

One-time sponsors

Season of Docs (balance of project costs)

Otto Duffner

Acquia Japan

Chris Hinds

Mautic Community Budget

We are just in the process of finalizing our budget for 2023, and I am pleased to share that we will be making 10% of our budget available to support our open source dependencies through the ‘Back your Stack’ initiative.

In the new year, we will be sharing a list of which projects we will be supporting in 2023.

Read more about the Back your Stack project in our blog post.

Maybe consider allocating a percentage of your company’s budget (or your own personal budget) to support open source projects that you rely on next year – it makes a huge difference to those projects!

Future of Mautic – mission, vision and strategy definition

At Mautic Conference South America I presented an update on our mission, vision and long term strategy for Mautic, along with our short term areas of focus.

Read more at mautic.org/future-of-mautic – I’d love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to reach out to me on the forums, Slack or Email.

Product Team update

Mautic 5 release schedule

Earlier this quarter we shared a provisional release schedule for Mautic 5, which was altered due to the amount of resources we needed and the lack of volunteer time in the community.

Thanks to a crowdfunding campaign we were able to hire some contractors to help us with the mammoth task that is updating Mautic for Symfony 5 support. Mautic is also matching the funds raised in this project, so the support of our financial sponsors is directly helping us with keeping Mautic updated and secure. If you aren’t yet sponsoring Mautic please do consider a regular or one-off donation of any amount on Open Collective or GitHub Sponsors.

We hit a few delays due to illness but the project is gathering steam!

We really do need Mautic users to help us with testing these updates – all you need to do is click a link to open a Mautic instance within your browser and test the area of Mautic that is being updated.

It’s a really great way to contribute if you want to see Mautic 5 coming out sooner rather than later.

Read more in our Community Handbook how to get started with testing and report your results and check the pinned issue on GitHub for the areas that need testing.

Marketing team update

Newsletter refresh

If you subscribe to the Mautic Community Newsletter (and if you don’t then, why not!) you will have noticed that our latest newsletter has had a great facelift thanks to the Marketing Team.

We’re always looking for interesting content to feature, so if you would like to help with writing, designing, translating or proof-reading the newsletter please join #t-marketing on Slack.

Pitch Deck

We are building a team to complete the Mautic Pitch Deck – a resource that the Marketing Team are creating to help people share what Mautic is and to support them in successfully pitching Mautic for projects.

We welcome any case studies that you might be willing to share – please use this template and send it to info@mautic.org or share in #t-marketing on Slack. Likewise if you would like to get involved in this project, please let us know!

Once the pitch deck is created we will work with our international community to make it available in other languages.

2023/4 events schedule

We are currently planning out our marketing strategy for the coming year, including events where we want Mautic to have a presence.

Do you know of events where you think we should be represented? Would you like support to represent Mautic at an event local to you? Please let us know!

Would you like to help promote Mautic at events? We have several events coming up where we need help to staff a stand, to submit talks about Mautic, and more. Drop into #t-marketing and let’s chat!

Events we are provisionally planning to have representation at so far:

• FOSDEM, Belgium – 4-5 February, we will have a community sprint at the event
• State of Open, London – 7-8 February, we will have a stand at the event
• Inbox Expo, Valencia – 27 Feb-3 March
• Drupal Developer Days, Vienna – 19-22 July, we will host a Mautic Developer Days event alongside the Drupal community
• MarTech Fest, Utrecht – 4-6 September
• DrupalCon, Lille – 16-22 October, we will be running a community event alongside the conference

Education team update

New Knowledgebase launched

If you missed the exciting news, this quarter we launched a new, fully multilingual knowedgebase for the Mautic Community. It’s integrated with your Mautic Forums accounts so you can log in and contribute articles without needing another account.

If your language is not yet showing as available on the Knowledgebase and you would like to help us with translating the user interface and content please drop into the Education Team channel, #t-education, on Slack (get an invite at https://mautic.org/slack). Maybe you could organise a local sprint to translate the content – it’s a great way to bring together the community!

We are excited at the prospect of having a knowledgebase that is easy to contribute and will contain tutorials, how-to guides and troubleshooting resources for our global community.

Season of Docs project completion

We are just reviewing and completing the last few sections of the updated end-user documentation, which was a project funded by the Season of Docs initiative. Favour Chibueze has been working for the last six months on updating, improving and replatforming every aspect of our documentation and we are planning to launch it with Mautic 5.

Developer Documentation almost complete

We are in the final stages of updating the Developer Documentation which is also being replatformed to Read the Docs, along with the End-User Documentation

Some of the code examples were really out of date and many of the resources needed to be completely overhauled, so it has been a really huge undertaking mostly driven by Dennis Ameling. We are planning to launch this to coincide with the Mautic 5 launch.

Community team update

Mautic Conference South America

What a great time we had in Sao Paulo with our second in-person conference, Mautic Conference South America!

With over 100 tickets sold and 30+ people joining the community contribution day, it’s our largest in-person event to date.

A full day of sessions with speakers from across the industry meant a really diverse audience – from Mautic experts to people who had never used Mautic before and were keen to know more about the product and the community.

It was great to meet with so many of our Brazilian community and to hear all the awesome ways that they are succeeding with Mautic.

Our next event will be held online – Mautic Conference Global in June 2023 (dates coming soon!), and we will shortly be opening up nominations for a location to host the next in-person conference at the end of 2023.

Local Communities and localized Mautic landing pages

Meanwhile, we are finally making progress towards our framework (technical and content) for localized Mautic landing pages in many languages.

Those are closely related to the structural improvements for our local communities. These are not closed user groups, but also spread the word on Mautic in their region and language – which involves maintaining aforementioned localized Mautic landing pages.

And… We are very happy to announce our latest Mautic Local Community, which is currently being founded in Cameroon!

Are you a local? Please get in touch on https://forum.mautic.org/c/international-by-country/mautic-in-cameroon/

Contributor sticker swag

Thanks to some magic from n8n and Sticker Space, anyone who contributes to Mautic will now be invited to claim a pack of stickers featuring the Mautic brand mark, logo, and our friend Mautibot.

Each month we will be processing new contributors, so look out for an email from us if you have made a contribution recently!

Let’s look at the numbers!

NOTE: There was a bug with our Community CRM which meant that PR’s created were not registered from November to February. This post has been updated to reflect the accurate counts, with the PRs included. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This quarter we have exceeded 6500 members in total who have engaged in our community (up from just over 5200 this time last year), with 465 active members over the last three months.

This year we’ve had over 1,700 active members with 2,210 contributions – when we consider that in 2021 we had only 1,152 contributions and the year before that only 916, this is a massive increase.

Over the last 90 days, our most active contributors (based on the number of conversations) have been:

Joey Keller 467

John Linhart 318

Bill F 266

Mattias Michaux 140

Matic Zagmajster 131

Michael Wolman 88

Sven Döring 87

Mohammed Abu Musa 84

Zdeno Kuzmany 68

Xavi Montero 66

Read more about what is defined as a contribution here.

Our most engaged contributors (based on the number of connections they have made with others in the community) have been:

Joey Keller 210

Matic Zagmajster 106

John Linhart 82

Norman Pracht 79

Bill F 75

Dirk Spannaus 71

Michael Wolman 69

Robin M 66

Zdeno Kuzmany 58

Ekke Guembel 47

Our top contributors this quarter (based on the number of contributions they have made) have been:

John Linhart 89

Zdeno Kuzmany 41

Mattias Michaux 30

Volha Pivavarchyk 22

Mohammed Abu Musa 21

Joey Keller 21

Mohammed Abu Musa 16

Artem Lopata 15

Salem Code 12

Dennis Ameling 12

The companies who were most active in the Mautic Community (based on the number of conversations) are:

Acquia 1287

Friendly 465

Dropsolid 164

Smart Octopus Solutions 131

Webmecanik 113

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 111

Surge Media 88

Moorwald | Sven Döring 87

Aivie 87

Steer Campaign 85

The companies who are contributing the most to the Mautic Community (based on the number of contributions) are:

Acquia 191

Webmecanik 44

Dropsolid 32

Aivie 23

Steer Campaign 22

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 22

Friendly 21

Comarch 11

SonsOfPHP 10

Smart Octopus Solutions 6

Conclusion

It has been a really great quarter and a fantastic year for Mautic – with progress being made in many areas and continued growth of our community. A huge thank you to everybody who has contributed in whatever way, it’s most appreciated!

With our future targets of growing contributions both financially and practically, I have every confidence that Mautic will continue to thrive in the coming year ahead!

A big thank you to the sponsors who have supported us this quarter on GitHub Sponsors or Open Collective:

Over $100/mth

Acquia

Webmecanik

Aivie

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing

Friendly

Up.mass

Akaunting

Droptica

Dropsolid

Web Any One

Powertic

SMC

AudienceWare

Media Giant Design

Sales Snap

Comarch SA

Under $100/mth

Avinash Dalvi

Dirk Spannaus

Joey Keller

Roundabout Media

Jan Linhart

Ruth Cheesley

Acquia Japan

DT Network

Spiderdev9

BSF.company

Henry Weismann

One-time sponsors

n8n

Jochen Grotepass

Joey Keller

Sven Döring

Ferienhausmiete.de

resido GmbH

Otto Duffner

Acquia 

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing

Community Team update

The primary focus in the Community Team has been supporting the Brazilian Community with the upcoming Mautic Conference South America. It’s shaping up to be a great event, with speakers from the Mautic Community and the wider Marketing industry.

The event will feature a full day of conference, followed by a full Community Day where there will be opportunities to get involved in giving back to the Mautic project across the four teams.

We hope to see you there!

Education Team update 

Season of Docs project update

We are coming to the end of the Season of Docs project and Favour Chibueze has been doing a fantastic job of moving our documentation over to Read the Docs and getting it updated to provide a more comprehensive overview.

For a sneak peek, you can head over to https://mautic-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. When the project is complete, we will replace https://docs.mautic.org with the new documentation.

We are also in the process of setting up the facility to translate the documentation with Transifex – watch this space!

Marketing Team update

Pitch Deck

Work is getting started on completing the Mautic Pitch Deck – a resource that the Marketing Team are creating to help people share what Mautic is and to support them in successfully pitching Mautic for projects.

We welcome any case studies that you might be willing to share – please use this template and send it to info@mautic.org or share in #t-marketing on Slack. Likewise if you would like to get involved in this project, please let us know!

Once the pitch deck is created we will work with our international community to make it available in other languages.

2023/4 schedule

We are currently planning out our marketing strategy for the coming year, including events where we want Mautic to have a presence.

Do you know of events where you think we should be represented? Would you like support to represent Mautic at an event local to you? Please let us know! 

Would you like to help promote Mautic at events? We have several events coming up where we need help to staff a stand, to submit talks about Mautic, and more. Drop into #t-marketing and let’s chat!

Product Team update

4.4.x releases

The Product Team continues to make monthly releases with bug fixes – a big thank you to the growing number of people who are joining us in the Open Source Friday sprints. If you have a bit of time on a Friday, why not help us by testing new features and bug fixes, or working on fixes for reported issues?

We have also recently shared an update on the timelines for our next major release, Mautic 5.0, which we are aiming to release at the beginning of 2023.

Community Sprint

In October we joined the Contribution Day at DrupalCon Prague to hold a Mautic Community Sprint. We had contributors across the Product and Education team, and made great progress on some blockers with Mautic 5, and also with translating several of the Knowledgebase articles into German.

Community sprints are a really great way to get involved with Mautic, so if you would like to organize one in your local area or join one of our existing events I highly encourage you to jump right in!

Let’s look at the numbers

This quarter, we have had 522 active members across the community who have on average 9 conversations per member.

Active members

Over 4,500 conversations happened this quarter, with an average of 2.5 hours response time and a response rate of 48%.

Our most active members (based on the number of conversations) have been:

Joey Keller 406

Bill F 322

John Linhart 311

Matic Zagmajster 138

Zdeno Kuzmany 88

Ekke Guembel 82

Oluwatobi Owolabi 73

Michael Wolman 71

 Favour Chibueze 63

 Luis Méndez Alejo 63

Read more about what is defined as a conversation here.

Engaged members

During Q3, our most engaged members (based on the number of other community members they have conversations with) have been:

Joey Keller 244

John Linhart 109

Michael Wolman 94

 Bill F 86

Norman Pracht 73

Zdeno Kuzmany 68

Ekke Guembel 62

Steve Robinson 55

Matic Zagmajster 54

Mohammed Abu Musa 53

Contributions

During Q3 there were 531 registered contributions across all the channels that we monitor, down from 718 last quarter (which was inflated by speakers and team at Mautic Conference Global). We are continuing to see a positive trend in contributions over time, with many new contributors getting involved for the first time.

You can check what we consider to be a contribution here, with the addition of reviews on pull requests and completed Jira issues which we track through the API, and meeting attendance which we track manually.

Individual contributors

During Q3 the top individual contributors were:

John Linhart 103

Zdeno Kuzmany 45

Favour Chibueze 28

Volha Pivavarchyk 26

Joey Keller 22

Artem Lopata 20

Mattias Michaux19

Oluwatobi Owolabi 16

Christopher S. Penn 13

Matic Zagmajster 9

Organizations contributing

 Acquia 121

 Webmecanik 53

 Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 38

 Aivie 28

 Dropsolid 22

 Friendly 22

 Bluespace 16

 Comarch 12

 Smart Octopus Solutions 9

Sales Snap 7

New contributors

Vyacheslav V Sokolov

KN4CK3R

abcpro1

Artem Lopata

OnyXxL

rohit.pavaskar

Omer Toledano

Vladimir

fiveways

ZebruhDivs

Rodrigo demetrio

henry1688

JakubHelis

Sara Souza

Mikael Lincoln

Leonardo Borlot

pwned555

Cr7t3K

Aichhoernchen

Mehdi

mnbro

PJ Carly

theodor

Ionuţ Ojică

christian-beckmann

dlopez-akalam

healthstatus1

Víctor García

Henjo Voelker

Alex

Salem Code

igoragatti

Conclusion

It’s great to see continuing growth in contributions across the teams in the community, with our focus on the Year of the Contributor helping to improve our processes and workflows. I’m really looking forward to meeting our Brazilian community next week in Sao Paulo for Mautic Conference South America where we are going to be running a whole day of contribution, so watch out for a big spike in contributions next quarter!

Q2 2022 Sponsors Shoutout

A big thank you to the sponsors who have supported us this quarter on GitHub Sponsors or Open Collective:

Over $100/mth

Acquia

Webmecanik

Aivie

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing

Friendly

Up.mass

Akaunting

Droptica

Dropsolid

Web Any One

Powertic

SMC

QED42

AudienceWare

Media Giant Design

Sales Snap

Under $100/mth

Avinash Dalvi

Dirk Spannaus

Joey Keller

Roundabout Media

Jan Linhart

Ruth Cheesley

Eli Logan

John R White

Acquia Japan

DT Network

Spiderdev9

One-time sponsors

Manoj Kumar ($20)

Comarch SA ($5)

Ruth Cheesley ($60)

Beau Enslow ($5)

Magenteiro ($65)

Community Team update

Mautic Community Sprint – Budapest

It has certainly been a busy quarter for the Community Team, organising the Community Sprint in Budapest and more recently, our world conference, Mautic Conference Global 2022.

The community sprint was a great success, with a lot of progress being made in all teams and perhaps more importantly, welcoming new contributors who had never before made a contribution to Mautic, and getting them onboarded.

We also had some great evening socials organized by our local host, Joey Keller, exploring the local restaurants, entertainment and the world-famous thermal baths.

Community sprints are a great way for the community to come together and really ‘get things done’ – everyone who attended left inspired, excited, and with a lot of great memories to treasure.

We are looking forward to the next time we come together!

Mautic Conference Global

We took the decision to change platforms for this year’s Mautic Conference Global, and although it had some quirks, we feel that Airmeet was a far superior experience for attendees, speakers, track leads and sponsors.

With two days jam-packed full of fantastic talks from speakers both within our community and from the wider email marketing world, there truly was something for everyone.

We are planning to release the videos next week – thanks to the great work from our community contributors who have worked tirelessly to get the videos rendered.

Mautic Conference South America

At the end of Mautic Conference Global, we announced that the venue for the next Mautic in-person conference will be in São Paulo, Brazil. 

We are really looking forward to supporting our Brazilian community with holding a great conference in November!

Education Team update

Season of Docs project started

We were delighted to be awarded a grant from the Season of Docs programme this year, and we have hired Technical Writer Favour Chibueze to work for a period of five months on updating, migrating and improving the end-user documentation.

Favour is already working through the content and we value any resources or materials that you feel would be a benefit to be included in the documentation. Please reach out to Favour directly or through the Education Team channel, #t-education.

Knowledge base project kickoff

The Knowledge base has been one of the more neglected areas of our documentation resources, and something that is sorely needed by users of Mautic.

We are in the process of kicking off a new project led by RobM to implement a new, improved and fully multilingual knowledge base. If you would like to be involved in this project, please let us know in #t-education on Slack.

You might be wondering why we have documentation and a knowledge base, and what information should live where. We are adopting the Diataxis framework which will help to guide which resources belong in which locations based on user needs.

Marketing Team update

Substantial progress was made in the Mautic Community Sprint held in Budapest at the beginning of the quarter, with Ivana Rosic from Sales Snap joining the team as a new contributor and several of her team members providing additional support in promoting Mautic Conference Global.

We have moved to a new platform for managing our social media – HeyOrca – which allows for unlimited users and has a robust approval process including working with external stakeholders. This should greatly empower our contributors and remove the existing bottleneck of only two people being able to access the platform.

We are also working on a range of useful, informative articles for the blog, contributor spotlights, and updating the imagery that we use in the community to have a more modern feel.

Product Team update

The quarter got off to a great start with our first ever Mautic Developer Days in Ghent. Held alongside the already well established Drupal Developer Days, we had three full days of collaboration and troubleshooting some of the challenges faced with bringing both PHP 8 and Symfony 5 support to Mautic.

Although we were a small team, a great amount of progress was made, with over 50% of the must-do tasks being completed during the event.

Of course it’s not all hard work – we also got to see the sights and join some of the great social events organized by Drupal Developer Days, including a silent disco in a castle and a board games night!

While we have made a great start on the Symfony 5 update, we do have a lot of work left to do. If you would like to help with this, as a developer or a tester, please do reach out in #mautic-5 on Slack (get an invite at mautic.org/slack).

We have also had two minor releases this quarter, with 4.3 bringing many new features and bug fixes, two security fixes, and support for Acquia’s recently released Custom Objects plugin.

The 4.4 release this week included support for PHP 8.0, and many bug fixes – including some regressions from the previous release.

Focus will now shift toward preparing an alpha release for Mautic 5.0, which is already overdue. We do need more help with this, so if you are able to support a developer to work with our team for a period of time each week, it would be greatly appreciated.

Finally the Product Team are going to be re-launching their regular meetings, check out the updates in #t-product on Slack for more information.

Let’s look at the numbers

This quarter we exceeded 6,000 members in the Mautic Community, with 795 active members who have an average of 11 conversations per member.

Active members

Over the last 90 days, our most active members (based on the number of conversations) have been:

Bill F (748)

Joey Keller (587)

John Linhart (499)

Oluwatobi Owolabi (161)

Norman Pracht (150)

Ekke Guembel (149)

Pierre Ammeloot (139)

Michael Wolman (122)

Matic Zagmajster (119)

Favour Chibueze (117)

Read more about what is defined as a conversation here.

Engaged members

The most engaged members (based on the number of other community members they have conversations with) have been:

Joey Keller (307)

John Linhart (164)

Norman Pracht (141)

Michael Wolman (124)

Pierre Ammeloot (114)

Zdeno Kuzmany (110)

Bill F (99)

Matic Zagmajster (90)

Clark Reeves (63)

Mattias Michaux (62)

Contributions

When we look at contributions made, this quarter we have nearly doubled the new contributors across all our community channels compared with last quarter – up to 126 from 70 in Q1 2022. In total we have had 718 contributions tracked against 307 last quarter. 

Some of this increase may be attributed to the recent addition of GitHub Pull Requests and completed Jira issues assigned to a user being automatically logged as contributions, and also the speakers and team members at Mautic Conference Global, helping to shine a light on the contributors who are often missed in the statistics but without whose contributions the community could not function.

We are seeing a substantial growth in contribution over time across all channels, especially when compared with historical contributions. 

We are continuing to see growth in contributions to our GitHub repositories over time.

Individual contributors

This quarter has seen some new contributors entering the top ten list (based on the number of contributions they have made):

John Linhart (53)

Zdeno Kuzmany (26)

Mattias Michaux (17)

Tejas Navghane (17)

Favour Chibueze (16)

Volha Pivavarchyk (13)

Rohit Pavaskar (8)

Miroslav Fedeleš (6)

Dennis Ameling (6)

Mohammed Abu Musa (5)

Read more about what is defined as a contribution here.

Organizations contributing

The companies who were most active in the Mautic Community (based on the number of conversations) are:

Acquia (2231)

Friendly (591)

Webmecanik (273)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing (240)

Bluespace (161)

Web Any One (139)

Dropsolid (137)

Aivie (133)

Sales Snap (128)

Surge Media (122)

The companies who are contributing the most to the Mautic Community (based on the number of contributions) are:

Acquia (240)

Webmecanik (50)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing (34)

Dropsolid (27)

Aivie (27)

Bluespace (24)

Sales Snap (14)

Friendly (13)

Steer Campaign (12)

Smart Octopus Solutions (8)

Conclusion

It has been really fantastic to meet up – both in person and virtually – with Mauticians from around the world over the last few months. I am struck by the excitement and enthusiasm across the community and the dedication you all have to making Mautic and our wider community even more awesome than it already is.

We do have a lot of work to do this quarter to get the Mautic 5 release ready, and I will be reaching out to organizations in the community for help with getting this important project over the line. We are also working on starting some interesting initiatives, including improving the reporting and analytics features in Mautic, so do keep an eye out for more opportunities to provide input and support Mautic’s growth!

Q4 2021 Sponsors Shoutout

A big thank you to the sponsors who have supported us this quarter on GitHub Sponsors or Open Collective:

Over $100/mth

Acquia

Webmecanik

Aivie

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing

Friendly

Waym

Up.mass

Akaunting

Droptica

Dropsolid

Web Any One

Powertic

SMC

QED42

Marketing Heap

AudienceWare

Media Giant Design

Under $100/mth

Avinash Dalvi

Dirk Spannaus

Shamaeva Natalia

Joey Keller

Roundabout Media

Jan Linhart

Ruth Cheesley

Eli Logan

Jon Stephenson

First Mautic Roadmap

It’s an exciting time for everyone involved with Mautic as we grow our community and develop our product to meet the evolving needs of the Marketer.

I have often been asked about our roadmap and before today there has never really been anything that I can point at and say ‘this is where Mautic is going’ other than vague blog posts and forum threads.

Earlier this year I shared the first iterations of our plans for the future which I debuted at Mautic Conference Europe 2021 in my keynote. It includes some great features that we have coming over the next year.

This process is new for us, and we do anticipate that there will be some tweaks made over the coming year, so please take this as our first rough outline of what we are hoping to achieve.

Some of these features will be community contributed, others may be contributed by an organization who has built or worked on it as a project for clients and are providing it back to the community.

If you prefer to view this in visual form, please head over to https://mau.tc/roadmap where you’ll be able to view an interactive graphic, and if you have a Jira account for our community instance, see the progress at the task level.

Community Team update

Mautic Conferences

There has been a hive of activity in the Community Team this quarter as we kick off the work to prepare the next Mautic Conferences.

The team have put out an open call for help with organizing these events so that they are run and managed by our community rather than a couple of people – if you would like to get involved please join #mauticon on Slack and let us know how you would like to help. All the roles are documented in the Community Handbook.

Call for in-person event location proposals

The Community Team is inviting proposals for locations to host the next in-person conference after Mautic Conference Europe last year saw our first ever in-person conference in Hasselt, Belgium. Nominations are open until the end of April, so be sure to submit your preferred location!

In person Community Sprint

The Community Team is also organizing an in-person Mautic Community Sprint in Budapest from 2-4 May 2022 – I am looking forward to meeting some of you there and working together on several exciting projects across all the teams in the community.

Education Team update

Replatform of documentation

A lot of work is going on behind the scenes to update and migrate both our Developer Documentation and End-User Documentation to Read the Docs.

This will bring several benefits including:

• Being able to have multiple versions of our documentation so that we can maintain information for several major versions of Mautic alongside each other
• Allowing us to translate the documentation with Transifex and host multiple languages to better serve our international community
• Enabling us in the longer term to locate our documentation within our core mautic/mautic GitHub repository, so that there is one centralized repository for making features and bug fixes as well as contributing to the documentation which will improve the contributor experience.

We have also applied to the Google Season of Docs for a grant to help with the huge task with the End-User Documentation.

If you would like to get involved in these projects please join #t-education on Slack, or if you are comfortable with GitHub you’ll find the repositories at mautic/new-developer-documentation and mautic/user-documentation.

Marketing Team update

Would you like to write for the Mautic Community blog? Review and proof-read articles? Create imagery for our campaigns? Write the Mautic Community newsletter and onboarding campaigns?

The Marketing Team would love to hear from you!

We’ve had some great articles this quarter which you can find on our blog at mautic.org/blog.

Product Team update

Open source Friday Community Sprints

This quarter the Product Team has started to trial a new concept of encouraging businesses who rely on Mautic to contribute some of their time every Friday to help make Mautic even better. They are calling this ‘Open Source Friday Community Sprints’ which is joining an existing initiative to encourage open source contributions on a Friday.

There are already 7 Mautic businesses who have signed up to enable their teams to contribute to Mautic on Fridays – will you join in?

To start with this is a pilot in the Product Team but it is planned to roll it out more widely later in the year.

To get involved, join us in #t-product each Friday!

4.2 release

Last month the Product Team released Mautic 4.2 – the latest feature release in the 4.x series, which also included a security fix to the .htaccess file. Read more about the new features in the announcement post.

The Product Team has also announced with the 4.2 release some planned changes to the Mautic installation and upgrade processes which will be introduced over the coming releases, to remove the ability to update Mautic in the browser and eventually move to Composer being the supported method for installing and managing your Mautic instance.

Let’s look at the numbers!

This quarter we exceeded 5,500 members in the Mautic Community, with 634 active members who have an average of 10 conversations per member.

The majority of our members are from the forums, but a good percentage are also coming from GitHub and Slack.

Over the last 90 days, our most active members (based on the number of conversations) have been:

Ruth Cheesley 1135

Joey Keller 479

Zdeno Kuzmany 306

John Linhart 301

Bill 291

Ekke Guembel 191

Matic Zagmajster 176

Renato Santos 136

Oluwatobi Owolabi 115

Mattias Michaux 92

Read more about what is defined as a conversation here.

The most engaged members (based on the number of other community members they have conversations with) have been:

Ruth Cheesley 363

Joey Keller 263

Norman Pracht 179

John Linhart 139

Zdeno Kuzmany 119

Matic Zagmajster 85

Adrian 76

Michael 74

Mohammed Abu Musa 71

Eli Logan 65

When we look at contributions made, this quarter we have had 70 new contributors across all our community channels. In total we have had 307 tracked contributions.

We are continuing to see a growth in contribution over time across all channels, especially when compared with historical contributions.

Likewise we are seeing ongoing growth in contributions across our GitHub repositories:

This quarter, our top contributors (based on the number of contributions they have made) are:

Ruth Cheesley 70

Zdeno Kuzmany 37

John Linhart 33

Mattias Michaux 15

Volha Pivavarchyk 11

Dennis Ameling 11

Renato Santos 9

Joey Keller 8

Adrian 8

Matic Zagmajster 7

Read more about what is defined as a contribution here.

The companies who were most active in the Mautic Community (based on the number of conversations) are:

Acquia 642

Webmecanik 247

Aivie 76

Dropsolid 49

CTMobi 31

Tu Wien 24

Steer Campaign 24

Friendly 23

TwentyZen 22

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 22

The companies who are contributing the most to the Mautic Community (based on the number of contributions) are:

Acquia 81

Webmecanik 37

Aivie 19

Dropsolid 15

TU Wien 5

Steer Campaign 4

CTMobi 3

Smart Octopus Solutions 2

App Civicio 2

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 2

Conclusion

It has been great to see the energy and enthusiasm coming about through our recent in-person events, Open Source Friday sprints and a real growth in engagement across the community, but as always we are always on the lookout for folk who can help us by contributing some of your valuable time with whatever skills you can offer.

I’m looking forward to seeing the realization of some big projects next quarter, including Acquia’s Custom Objects plugin being released, our next minor release which will have some nice new features and hopefully also support for PHP8, and our first alpha and beta releases of Mautic 5 which will be compatible with the next version of Symfony. I’m hoping to see some of you in Budapest in May!

The last two years have really felt like we have been catching up with ourselves, but we are starting to see a lot of progress, innovation and exciting ideas for Mautic coming through. Sharing a roadmap for the first time feels like we are moving out of the reactive mode and more towards a creative way of planning Mautic’s future. It’s great to have you along with us on this journey!

Read the previous reports here for Q3 2021, Q2 2021 and Q1 2021.

Q4 2021 Sponsors Shoutout

A big thank you to the sponsors who have supported us this quarter on GitHub Sponsors or Open Collective:

$100 per month and over

Acquia

Webmecanik

Aivie

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing

Friendly

Waym

Up.mass

Akaunting

Droptica

Web Any One

Powertic

SMC

QED42

Under $100 per month

Weismann Web

Avinash Dalvi

Eli Logan

Joey Keller

Roundabout Media

Jan Linhart 

Khalid Zamer

Ruth Cheesley

Giving Tuesday / Back your Stack

On Giving Tuesday, we announced that in our 2022 budget we have allocated funds to support the top 10 open source projects which are dependencies we rely on. The top ten were voted by the community, and have received $200 in donations from Mautic via our Open Collective.

The projects we will be supporting in 2022 in ranked order are:

1. Twig
2. Guzzlehttp
3. Monolog
4. Sebastian Bergman
5. Symfony
6. Predis
7. League
8. FriendsofPHP Proxy Manager
9. Matomo Analytics
10. ESLint

While we appreciate that $200 is not a huge amount of money, we want to start somewhere by doing our bit to support a sustainable Open Source ecosystem.

Read more about the Back your Stack project in our blog post.

Product Team Update

Mautic Releases

During Q4 we have released two bug fix releases – 4.0.2 and 4.1.1 – and our first minor release in the Mautic 4 series, 4.1.

4.1 release

After an immensely productive sprint at Mautic Conference Europe, we managed to get a large number of features and enhancements released in the 4.1 release, including Gitpod support which enables anyone to spin up a Mautic instance on Gitpod with a new feature or bug fix applied – a massive help for testers!

Read more about the release in the announcement post.

We’re looking forward to the next in-person sprint in the spring!

Coming up we have another bug fix release – 4.1.2 – at the end of January, and then our next minor release, 4.2, at the end of February. We are hoping to have some great new features in this release but we do need help from testers. Please do consider putting some time in your calendar each week to test a couple of bug fixes or features, it would be a huge help! Join us on Slack in #t-product if you need any help getting started.

Marketing Team Update

Welcome Déborah Salves, who has stepped up to take on the Assistant Team Lead role in the Marketing Team!

Mautic Pitch Deck

We have made a great start on the Pitch Deck project, thanks to the many people at Mautic Conference Europe who contributed!

The vision for this project is to empower people to pitch Mautic more effectively, by providing a set of slides which can be used as a whole or within existing presentations.

Take a look at the planning document and the slide deck, and if you would like to get involved with this project please join #t-marketing on Slack.

Community Team Update

Our first ever in-person conference

What an amazing event, our first ever in-person Mautic Conference. We heard from some fantastic speakers on the first day, had some great conversations in the networking sessions and socials, and got an immense amount of work done in the community sprint!

Read more about the event in our blog post here. Videos are being processed and will be available on YouTube soon, be sure to subscribe and click on the bell to be notified the moment they are released.

Community Survey

At Mautic Conference Europe I shared some interesting information from our first Community Survey. It is the first time that we have surveyed users of Mautic to find out things like how and where they are hosting, how many contacts they are working with, and what they think about the product and the community.

Thank you to everyone who responded – you can download the raw data and the charts from the blog post.

New meetup group

We are excited to share that a new meetup group has been formed for French-speaking Mauticians. Based in Libreville, Gabon the first meeting will be scheduled during January.

Join the meetup group to get updates here.

Education Team Update

Updating and re-platforming the developer documentation

Work is well underway to update the Developer Documentation and move it to Read the Docs, which will allow us to both version the documentation (e.g. have a version for Mautic 4, while working on a separate version for Mautic 5 as we’re developing it) and to translate it with Transifex.

If you’d like to get involved in this project, please join us in #t-education on Slack. The repository can be found here.

Updating and re-platforming the end-user documentation

The Education Team is just kicking off a project to update and re-platform the end-user documentation to Read the Docs.

This is in the very early stages, if you’d like to get involved, the repository can be found here – please get in touch on Slack as above.

Integrating the documentation into the main Mautic repository

Once the work in the two projects above is complete, the Education Team is planning to relocate both documentation resources within the main GitHub repository. This will mean that when a new feature is being added, the documentation can be added at the same time. It also means there will be a single place where all of our code and our documentation resides, instead of in multiple separate repositories.

If you’d like to know more about these projects, please reach out to Education Team Lead, Favour Kelvin.

Let’s look at the numbers!

This quarter we exceeded 5,000 members in the Mautic Community, with the majority of the growth coming since 2019.

Over the last 90 days, our most active contributors (based on the number of conversations) have been:

Ruth Cheesley 45

Zdeno Kuzmany 38

Dennis Ameling 26

Norman Pracht 15

John Linhart 14

Joey Keller13

Oluwatobi Owolabi 9

Alan Hartless 8

Matic Zagmajster 7

Adrian Schimpf 7

Read more about what is defined as a contribution here.

Our most engaged contributors (based on the number of connections they have made with others in the community) have been:

Ruth Cheesley 386

Joey Keller 233

Norman Pracht 224

Michael 125

Zdeno Kuzmany 104

Dennis Ameling 88

John Linhart 86

Eli Logan 74

Alan Hartless 70

Mohammed Abu Musa 56

Our top contributors this quarter (based on the number of contributions they have made) have been:

Ruth Cheesley 45

Zdeno Kuzmany 38

Dennis Ameling 26

Norman Pracht 15

John Linhart 14

Joey Keller 13

Oluwatobi Owolabi 9

Alan Hartless 8

Matic Zagmajster 7

Adrian Schimpf 7 

The companies who were most active in the Mautic Community (based on the number of conversations) are:

Acquia 1176

Friendly 407

Webmecanik 317

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 206

Dropsolid 175

Smart Octopus Solutions 165

Bluespace 65

Aivie 61

Torontoheadshot 45

QED42 43

The companies who are contributing the most to the Mautic Community (based on the number of contributions) are:

Acquia 78

Webmecanik 53

Friendly 15

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 10

Bluespace 9

Aivie 9

Dropsolid 8

Smart Octopus Solutions 7

It2servu.be 4

Digiriders 3

Conclusion

It was really inspiring to see the community coming together for our first ever in-person conference and community sprint last month, and the immense amount of progress that was made as a result of the community sprint. I’m really looking forward to many more in-person and online collaboration events in the coming year.

There are so many opportunities to get involved with helping Mautic grow and improve, regardless of your skills or experience level – please do consider setting aside a few hours a week to give something back, and/or contributing to the community through our GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective. Every contribution really does help us to move forward together as a project and a community. Thank you!