In the Mautic Community we have decided to rotate continents each year for our in-person conference, which gives an opportunity for local communities to host the event.

Would you like to have the next Mautic in-person conference in your country?

We are inviting you to submit a proposal before the end of April 2022 for consideration – we will make the final decision during our community sprint in Budapest. The conference will happen in November 2022, but we are flexible on the actual dates.

What do I need to consider if I want to propose a location?

Importantly, we cannot hold the event in any European country – so you need to be outside Europe. Other than that, here are some of our requirements:

• A team of people who are going to work together to run the event
  • This does not have to be a big team, but should be more than one person
     
• A city where the event will take place – ideally someone in the team should be ‘on the ground’ and live in or near the area
  • Well connected for national and international travel connections
  • A good range of reasonably priced accommodation
  • A strong Mautic community presence
     
• A venue where you think the event could be hosted over 1-3 days
  • A large plenary room for talks (or smaller rooms if the event would be multi-track)
  • Breakout rooms for community sprints, follow up discussions
  • An area for networking between sessions
     
• Local interest from sponsors and attendees
  • There should be at least one local sponsor who is interested in financially supporting the event

If you have an idea for a location please submit it before the end of April here:

Submit your idea

The event started with a very promising and informative Conference Day. Around 25 attendees had the possibility to listen to 9 speakers from 6 different countries and 3 different continents. Just imagine how much global Mautic expertise came together in this event!

The talks were hitting a wide range of topics:

• Mohammad Abu Musa explained how we can use Mautic to maintain Email deliverability 
• Alex Hammerschmied gave valuable insights to a real-life case on how to turn leads into returning customers 
• Madlen Friedrich and Ekkehard Gümbel talked about print mailings as part of Mautic campaigns, and why companies should include them into their marketing strategy
• Project Lead Ruth Cheesley discussed the results of the Mautic Community Survey and gave a preview of what to expect in 2022 and beyond
• Dennis Ameling presented the long desired, new Mautic Marketplace
• Toon De Geest and Frederik Wouters explained how they built a fully autonomous personalised email system with Drupal & Mautic 
• And last but not least, Andy Towne shared practical steps for advancing from newsletter to fully automated Marketing Automation

Thanks again to all speakers for sharing their knowledge with the Mautic Community! 

In case you missed the event, you might want to follow Mautic on Social Media to not miss a possible release of the recordings.

Community day

The following day was a community sprint day, planned as a hybrid event. So, folks were working on-premise at Corda Campus in Hasselt as well as remotely covering topics from all our teams. There has been a lot of progress! (And a massive pizza order :D)

• Product: 62 PR’s got ready to commit and have been merged already for Mautic 
• Marketing: Draft of a pitch deck for Mautic including cases studies, and commenced a review of the website 
• Community: Concept for Local Mautic Communities, blueprint for ‘Contribution Bootcamp’
• Education: Several knowledgebase articles have been written

For all of us it was a pleasure to finally meet so many members of the Mautic Family in person and get to know more about them and their journey with Mautic. This made the event very inspiring and motivating as one could really feel the passion about Open Source from the participants. 

Project Lead Ruth Cheesley summed it up as:

“a really wonderful few days full of energy, excitement, collaboration and enthusiasm!”

If you feel inspired and motivated now as well, help us make Mautic even better and contribute in whatever way you can. Have a look here https://contribute.mautic.org/contributing-to-mautic

Pssst.. don’t want to miss the next event? Sign in for the newsletter here https://www.mautic.org/community/get-involved/mailing-lists

Our sponsors for the Mautic Conference Europe were: 

Acquia (Gold Sponsor)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing (Bronze Sponsor)

Email expert (Lanyard Sponsor)

Dropsolid (Community Day Lunch Sponsor)

Here are some facts we are proud of:

• 6 months of planning and preparation
• 315 registrations, 247 Attendees (78% attendance rate) from all over the world
• 6 Parallel tracks
• 61 Sessions in one day
• 7 languages
• 17 sponsors
• 48 photos taken in our Photobooth
• 125 swag coupons issued to attendees resulting in nearly $600 worth of commissions being paid from the Mautic Community Swag Shop
• Approximately $13,000 in profit which will go toward the Mautic Community Budget
• 1 awesome community

We could not have been happier with our first ever global conference, and the team has really enjoyed reading the feedback that many of you have submitted over the last few weeks.

Here are some of the highlights from the event that we think you’ll want to catch up on if you missed them:

Many thanks to our sponsors – Leuchtfeuer, Acquia, Facet Interactive, Dropsolid, Acolono, Higher Education Marketing and OS Training that helped making this event happen.

The Mautic World Conference Working Group have been discussing what our plans will be for next year and here’s what we’re proposing:

• A global, virtual event in the spring (16/17 June 2021) which will be online – this will become our annual Mautic World Conference – online and accessible to all One in-person event which will be held toward the end of the year (October/November 2021) – location as yet undetermined, and dependent on the conditions of the global pandemic having changed significantly.

  This is likely to be held at least once per year, and will move regions (e.g. in Europe 2021, North America 2022, Asia 2023, Africa 2024 – indicative and not representative of actual location plans). As the community grows, we may be able to support more than one event per year if the teams, interest and finances exist to support it.

• Support for any localised MautiCamp events organised by local communities – whether in-person (when safe to do so) or online – if you’d like to organise something please reach out to the Community Team in #t-community on Slack (https://mautic.org/slack to get an invite!)

We’re thrilled to announce MautiCon 2020!

What is it?

MautiCon focuses on agency, business and individuals that use and love Mautic.

We’re bringing together end-users, translators, organisers, executives, marketers, editors, content strategists, designers, developers, and more.

There will be tracks to cover a range of topics and areas of interest including:

• Growing a business with Mautic

• Using Mautic with eCommerce

• Developing with Mautic

• Marketing Strategy

• Marketing Automation Best Practice

• Open Source

• Community

Non-English speakers are welcome to submit their proposals in their native languages.

When is it?

The event starts on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 9:00 AM (UTC) and will continue to follow the sun. We will be having sessions throughout the day and opportunities to network with attendees.

How can I join?

Tickets are available now.

We haven’t set a fixed price on tickets; we suggest $20, but please give what you feel you can.

Get your ticket here

How can I get involved?

There are two ways you can be a part of this exciting new event.

Speak at MautiCon 2020

We have issued the Call for Speakers and welcome everyone in the community to participate and share their knowledge with others. 

The Call for Speakers has been extended by one week, and will now close on October 2nd.

Non-English speakers are welcome to submit their proposals in their native languages.

Submit your session proposal

We also welcome volunteers who would be willing to serve as a track chair. These volunteers will help us to review and select the sessions and run the event on the day.

If you would like to volunteer to help run the event, please join slack at https://mautic.org/slack and join the #mauticon channel.

Sponsor MautiCon 2020

We have a number of sponsorship options that will put you in contact with Mautic developers and users including marketers and agencies. Sponsoring MautiCon is a great way to raise your profile within the community ecosystem, and give back to Mautic in a tangible way.

Sponsor MautiCon 2020