What will we be doing?

Our goal during this sprint is to take a fresh look at key use cases and workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, review existing issue reports, proposed code changes (pull requests) on GitHub, and ideas from the Mautic forums.

Based on all this input, we aren’t just going to be prioritizing things – we’ll actually be implementing things! This is a great opportunity to join us in working to improve Mautic across many areas.

Who should join?

We’re hoping for 20-30 people to support the effort in Prague. Skills from all angles are needed, mainly:

• Experienced Mautic users: your insights into user experience are invaluable.
• Mautic developers: your coding skills are crucial for implementation.
• Anyone else! Marketing, design, documentation, testing – any perspective is welcome.

If you’ve never attended a Mautic event (and it’s geographically feasible for you to attend) this is the perfect place to get started!

Event details

• Start: Wednesday, July 9th, 12:00 AM CEST (no problem if you arrive later)
• End: Thursday, July 10th evening (most will stay for the night)
• Location: Impact Hub Praha D10, Drtinova 557/10, Smíchov, 150 00 Praha-Praha 5, Czech Republic. View on Map (Railway station is about 20 minutes away).

Sign up & support

Ready to join us in Prague? Sign up for free here: Sign Up for the Sprint!

Can’t make it to Prague? You now have two options: 

1. You can still help! We appreciate any contribution, big or small, to help cover event costs: Sponsor the Sprint (ideally €100,- or as much has you can)
2. You can attend remotely. As much as we would love to see you in person, we also would love to see you attend remotely and participate in the community sprint from the comfort of your (hopefully) cosy home.  

Shoutout

Let’s not forget to give a warm shoutout to the lovely people over at Impact Hub for giving us a nice NGO discount to run our sprint at their venue.  We can’t even begin to tell you how much we appreciate that.

Your feedback is important

Even if you can’t attend, please help us make the sprint a success by giving us your feedback / ideas on the most valuable quality improvements for Mautic: Give Us Your Quality Feedback!

We’re excited to work together to shape the future of Mautic!

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.

* 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.

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!

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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.

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.

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.

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!

This is where open source communities have something powerful to offer. Unlike closed platforms where decisions are made behind the scenes, open source invites us to explore these technologies together with intention, openness, and deep respect for the people who use them. It is not just about adding AI to marketing tools because everyone else is doing it. It is about asking honest questions. Who benefits? Who decides how it is used? How do we make sure it stays inclusive and transparent?

Mautic, one of the most widely adopted open source marketing automation platforms, is beginning this exploration with a strong sense of shared responsibility. The community understands the potential of AI to support marketers in real ways by reducing repetitive work, enhancing creativity, and helping build stronger audience connections. But what stands out is the emphasis on how these tools are built and shared. The focus is not just on functionality but on ensuring that users have clarity over what AI is doing and why.

To support this direction, we have shared a thoughtful document that offers a collective perspective on what responsible AI integration can look like. Rather than delivering answers, it opens a space for deeper conversations. It welcomes developers, marketers, designers, technologists, and anyone curious about ethical technology to join in and shape this journey together. Real progress in open source does not come from a single announcement. It grows from many contributions, guided by shared values.

We invite you to read the Mautic AI Manifesto and be part of the discussion. Join our Working Group and help us shape the future of AI with Mautic. Whether you are already working on AI tools or just beginning to explore what they could mean for your projects, your voice matters!

Let’s create a future together for marketing automation that centers on openness, trust and community.

• 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.

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.

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!

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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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

• 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.

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.

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!

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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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

The Mautic.org website is owned and maintained by the Mautic Community, with collaboration happening in the #wg-website-rebuild and #mautic-community-website channels on Slack. 

Key features of the new website

The new website offers a user-friendly interface with exciting features and updates you can explore. 

Here’s a quick guide to get you started on some key sections and features. 

• Product: Wondering about what Mautic is? Start with the Overview to discover how it’s revolutionizing marketing automation. Explore Features that make Mautic stand out, from email marketing to campaign automation. Check out the Roadmap for a transparent look at Mautic’s exciting future developments. At the Security, you’ll learn how Mautic keeps your data safe with top-notch practices. Ready to get started? Head to Start Using Mautic for a quick and easy setup. For businesses needing tailored solutions, Extended Support provides personalized assistance to meet your needs.

• Solution: Discover how to transform industries with Mautic’s flexible marketing solutions. From driving innovation to boosting efficiency, Mautic supports organizations across multiple verticals and business sizes, helping them achieve their marketing goals efficiently. 

• Resources: In the Resources section, you’ll find everything you need to maximize your Mautic experience, including this blog, and case studies. Explore options in the getting started section like Managed Mautic, hosting solutions, and get all the details on the latest releases to keep your marketing automation running seamlessly. 

• Community: In the Community section, connect with Mautic’s excellent worldwide network of marketers, agencies, business owners, users, and developers who are ready to help you start with Mautic. Come for the software, stay for the community as we collaborate on projects, organize local events, and engage in real-time discussions on Slack.

• Supporters: In the Supporters section, discover how to become a member or partner of Mautic. Looking to contribute further? Explore the Sponsor section for other ways to financially support the Mautic project and help drive its growth and innovation.

Thanks to our awesome contributors

This project has been a team effort, and we’re so proud of what we’ve accomplished together. 

Here are the fantastic contributors who made this website a reality.

• Mike Van Hemelrijck (funded by Dropsolid) led the charge by building most of the site in WordPress and transforming the wireframes into a stunning design.

• Achilles Poloynis worked on the custom development and SEO improvements.

• AJ Eccel and Ricardo Freire contributed through user research and wireframes in the early stages, providing invaluable design inspiration.

• Sven Döring has been focusing on analytics and data and fixing a few bugs along the way!

• Emily Wood, Ayu, and Ima-Abasi Effiong have done a fantastic job reviewing the content.

• Angelo Miloch laid the foundation with an initial SEO audit, helping us identify the key pages we needed to optimize and plan all the redirects when the new site launched.

• Lastly, Ruth Cheesley handled much of the content creation for the new website. 

Thank you to everyone involved for their hard work and collaboration. We couldn’t have done it without you!  

Get started with Mautic

Explore Mautic today for businesses looking to integrate Mautic’s powerful marketing automation features!

To learn more about our mission to revolutionize open source marketing and to see how Mautic can transform your marketing efforts, get started with a 14-day free trial, sign up for our Managed Mautic service, or download Mautic to install it yourself!

Found a bug with the new site?

Please check our open issues and if it’s not yet reported, please raise one!

Simran Sethi joined the council back in December after being the successful candidate in the first round of elections and we’ve just concluded the second round which saw Adrian Schimpf being voted by the community to join the council, winning with a vote count of 11 compared with 6 votes for the other candidate, Chandeep Khosa. 

Firstly, a big thank you to all candidates for putting themselves forward for election and being willing to serve Mautic in this capacity, and to all members who took the time to vote for their preferred candidate.

Both candidates will take up a three-year term on the Mautic council, and soon we’ll be introducing them with a full biography.

Meet Simran Sethi

Simran Sethi joined the Community Council in December, bringing a wealth of knowledge and a fresh perspective to our team. With a background in digital marketing and community engagement, Simran has been an active contributor to Mautic for several years. Her passion for open source projects and her commitment to fostering inclusive environments make her an invaluable asset to our Council.

Simran is eager to collaborate with fellow Council members to enhance Mautic’s strategic initiatives and ensure that our community continues to thrive. Her focus will be on driving user engagement and expanding our global reach.

Meet Adrian Schimpf

Adrian Schimpf emerged as the successful candidate from our latest election process. With extensive experience in software development and project management, Adrian has been a dedicated member of the Mautic community, contributing to numerous projects and initiatives

Adrian’s vision for Mautic includes enhancing our technical capabilities and streamlining processes to improve user experience, making Mautic the best of breed in our industry. His technical expertise and collaborative spirit will be instrumental in advancing Mautic’s strategic goals and supporting our community’s growth.

Let’s dig into the year in review and explore all the amazing things we’ve achieved together over the last twelve months.

Mautic 5 lands

We couldn’t start our 2024 report without a huge shoutout to the colossal effort that went into getting Mautic 5 into General Availability and released into the world on 9th January which included a whopping 742 pull requests (referred to as PRs, each one is a bug fix, enhancement or feature) and saw the percentage of our code covered by automated tests (which catch bugs before they land with users) jump by 10% to nearly 60%. Back in Mautic 3.0 days we were only at around 30% coverage, so this has been a huge improvement over the years, reflecting greater stability and commitment to quality of code.

It’s been quite a journey since the release of 5.0 and we learned a lot from the release which will help us to make future major updates much smoother for our users.

Since 5.0 General Availability we’ve also shared two additional minor releases of Mautic 5.1 with 316 PRs, and 5.2 which consisted of 226 PRs – a monumental effort in both cases.

I’d like to take a moment to stop and appreciate not only the creators of the 749 pull requests adding bug fixes, features and enhancements over the last 12 months, but also to the testers – each PR merged requires two testers – code reviewers, security team and release leaders. Without their contributions we would not have been able to ship so many improvements and updates to Mautic.

Many of you will know of the many changes to the user interface and user experience that have been shipped in 5.1 and 5.2, thanks to the outstanding work of the UX/UI Tiger Team led by AJ Eccel. It’s been fantastic to see dedicated action being taken on user feedback and substantial improvements for the marketer using Mautic, so a big thank you to them, also.

Mautic Conference India

Normally our in-person conference is at the end of the year, but to avoid clashing with major festivals we took the decision to move it to February.

What a wonderful event it was!

Over 100 Mauticians from across India came together for two days of conference and contribution with some great sessions and a fantastic local team who did a great job of organising the event.

Mautic becomes a Digital Public Good

One of the exciting breaking news stories I shared from the stage at Mautic Conference India was that Mautic had been recognised as a Digital Public Good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a multi-stakeholder initiative which is endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General.

Being recognised as a DPG increases the visibility, support for, and prominence of open projects that have the potential to tackle global challenges. To become a digital public good, all projects are required to meet the DPG Standard to ensure that projects truly encapsulate open source principles. It means means a great deal. It’s a recognition of the importance of what we’re doing with Mautic – enabling equitable growth and empowering organizations worldwide to compete on a level playing field by making available powerful marketing automation software.

Mautic selected as a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code

After many attempts, Mautic was finally successful in being selected as a mentoring organization for the prestigious Google Summer of Code.

We were awarded two projects which saw university students Ketu Patel and Priyanshi Gaur funded to work on projects over their university vacations.

Priyanshi developed a Codeception End to End Test Suite, and Ketu worked on extending the Mautic Marketplace with ratings and reviews.

Both completed their projects successfully and were a delight to work with.

I was grateful to represent Mautic’s mentor team along with John Linhart at the Mentor Summit in San Francisco which was a fantastic experience – read John Linhart’s blog post about his experiences here.

Mautic celebrates 10 years

We kicked off celebrations of Mautic’s 10 year anniversary from the first commit on our GitHub repository with some great interviews with the original team members and more featured during my introduction to Mautic Conference Global later in the year. There will be more celebrations this year as we celebrate 10 years from our first public release.

Mautic trials launch

In March we launched the official Mautic Trials which was put out to tender in an RFP the previous year, and won by Dropsolid for a three year term. It was great to see this getting off the ground as we knew that a big roadblock for users who are new to Mautic with getting started has always been needing to install it – this gives them a quick and easy way to get an active instance to play with within 15 minutes.

The trial system has been a great success, although the conversions to paying customers were quite lower than we had been expecting which had an impact on finance – read more in the financial report.

Mautic receives European Commission funding via NLNet

In an exciting development, our proposal for developing portability of campaigns and ultimately a campaign library within Mautic was successful in its bid for funding from the NGI Zero Commons Fund. Work has just started on this project and we expect to ship the work with Mautic 7.

New release strategy and ELTS provides up to five years support for each major release

Towards the end of the year after much discussion and debate in the community, Mautic announced its new release strategy including Long Term Support releases and the provision of an Extended Long Term Support paid service to extend security support for a further two years after official support ends, offering up to five years support for each major version of Mautic.

Mautic does Hacktoberfest in style!

In previous years we’ve tried to engage with Hacktoberfest but never really seen a tangible impact on the project – this year our Education Team Lead Favour Chibueze took the project on, partnering with several organizations and driving incredible engagement, seeing over 50 new contributors onboarded, and nearly 60 tasks completed.

It was by far our most effective contributor engagement programme and we have learned a lot about onboarding en-mass and managing so many new contributions at once, while also retaining many contributors on an ongoing basis which has been great to see.

I have great expectations for next year!

Mautic Conference Europe

As the end of the year approached we headed over to the beautiful Lisbon, Portugal for our annual in-person conference which this year would be Mautic Conference Europe.

We welcomed Jenna Tiffany who gave a fantastic opening keynote on pitfalls to avoid with marketing strategy, and then followed a full day of conferencing and an inspiring day of community contribution, and even an amazing Mautic BBQ to round it all off!

The first Mautic Awards

I’ve wanted to introduce the Mautic Awards for a long time and this year we finally did it!

At the end of day one at Mautic Conference Europe in Lisbon, we held our inaugural Mautic Awards, recognising projects, companies and individuals for their outstanding work with Mautic. Some awards were panel-voted, some were community-voted – it was a wonderful celebration of everybody’s successes with Mautic. A huge thank you to all of our panel members who helped to judge the nominations.

We also welcomed newcomers to the Mautic community Robert and JAM from Open Strategy Partners who MC’d the whole event, and had a great celebration!

The year in numbers

You can check the annual report on our community health here. For comparison, 2023 is here, 2022 is here and 2001 is here.

Here’s some highlight stats from 2024:

• 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)

Let’s do our annual shout-out of the companies and individuals who are making Mautic.

= Increase from last year
= Decrease from last year

Most active companies:

Activity means that these companies are engaging within our community – whether that’s discussions in Slack, answering or asking questions on the Forums, responding to GitHub issues and pull requests, posting Mautic-related questions in places like Stack Overflow and Reddit, for example. This is important because an active, vibrant community means that people both feel more welcome and are more likely to find someone to help with their questions when they arrive. It also shows that we have an engaged community who care about Mautic, which is diverse and spans multiple 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%)

Top contributing companies:

Contributions are the life-blood of an open source project, and here we see the companies who are taking the time to give back to Mautic. They might be contributing code, or running events, or answering questions in the forums, or testing features and bug fixes – check the many ways you can contribute here It’s important that we build a wide and diverse base of contributing companies so that Mautic is not overly dependent on a small number of companies. While Acquia is still the top contributor this year, there are other companies who are increasingly contributing at much higher levels this year, which is great to see.

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%)

Most active individuals:

These are the folk you are most likely to come across if you’re part of the Mautic community. They’re taking time out of their day to give back to Mautic through many ways, and actively engaging across the community to help others succeed with Mautic.

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

Top contributing individuals:

These folks are the people who are building Mautic. They are contributing in many ways, as earlier mentioned – all of which are extremely helpful and valuable in Mautic’s growth.

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

Top contribution sources

Contributions can come in many different forms – here’s how they break down for this year’s contributions:

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

Mautic’s usage

There were 16,584 downloads of Mautic via the Downloads page on mautic.org over the past 12 months, you can see the breakdown of the top releases by number of downloads in the table below. This only represents a small proportion of Mautic users as you can also download Mautic through several other channels, such as GitHub and through Composer.

We saw the following downloads of releases made in 2024 via GitHub.

We can see from these stats that uptake can be slow with a new major release – we have noticed that a lot more people are installing and in particular updating when we get to the first new bug fix and minor releases of the software.

This year we also introduced some new metrics which pulls from the data collected by our updates server rather than using the slightly less reliable measure of websites with Mautic tracking deployed.

Here’s some of the charts which are generated from that data (which I often reference in the Open Startup reports each month), helping us to get a better understanding of the proportion of sites running the different versions of Mautic and how that’s changed over time. This data is collected when a Mautic instance is updated, so the date along the horizontal access is the last updated date.

The chart below shows the number of sites updating each month, and you can see that after something of a lull during previous years we’re now almost up to the highest number of instances being updated in all time.

Summary

2024 has been quite a challenging year for Mautic from the fiscal perspective – our first full year ‘going it alone’ as an independent project – and also from the practical perspective of maintaining the software itself.

I remain humbled on a daily basis by the number of businesses and individuals who contribute to help Mautic grow and thrive, and I think that you can see in the number of things we have achieved this year just what an impact that is happening.

In the coming year while we have some exciting projects coming on stream like our Extended Long Term Support, Campaign Library project and the work to bring Mautic up to date with Symfony, we mustn’t lose focus on the absolutely vital task of establishing a solid financial base with sufficient reserves being built up to ensure longer term sustainability and fuel further growth.

We are aiming to be able to take on more paid staff in 2025 to help with more consistent development and also with marketing and communications – none of which will be possible if we don’t achieve our goals in respect of fundraising.

So, if your business or organization receives benefit from Mautic and you’re in a position to do so, please become a Corporate Member from $1,200 per year, or consider sponsoring one of our upcoming events. If you can’t afford to contribute up-front, please consider making a regular sponsorship contribution on Open Collective. If your company can’t contribute, perhaps think about becoming an individual member.

It really does make a big difference and we a relying on people like you stepping up and supporting Mautic to achieve our ambitious goals.