Open source is at the heart of Mautic. It gives us room to experiment, exchange ideas, and collaborate to create a platform that we are proud of. Now, we want to give back in our little way.

Sharing the Love

So, how are we splitting this pool of gratitude? 

The Core Team has selected five open source projects that help Mautic become what it is today. Each project will receive a cool $600 as a one-time donation. It is our way of saying thank you and ensuring that these projects continue their excellent work.

The projects we are supporting this year include:

• Doctrine, which underpins much of Mautic’s codebase
• Composer, which is becoming the default way to install Mautic and plugins/themes
• Guzzle, which is used for handling all the HTTP requests in Mautic
• PHPSTAN, which is a central part of improving our code quality and highlighting bugs
• Rector, which has been an invaluable resource in helping us to update and improve our outdated, legacy code

Our Shared Open Source Future

But let’s be clear, these donations are not about charity. They are about acknowledging the critical roles these projects play and about actively investing in the future of the open source ecosystem we all love and depend on.

Through this contribution, we want to promote the spirit of sharing and learning that open source holds dear. After all, our success only holds value if we can uplift the community that made Mautic possible in the first place.

Inspiring Collaboration

Year after year, with this giving gesture, our aim remains to inspire. By supporting the amazing projects that we depend on, we hope to stir up the spirit of generosity and camaraderie in the open source community.

It’s more than just about money. It’s about painting the bigger picture of mutual support and shared responsibility that forms the backbone of open source principles.

In wrapping up, we want to say a big thank you to our community for your continued support of Mautic. We are excited to see how these five projects use our donations to expand their horizons and continue to foster growth in our remarkable open source ecosystem. 

Let’s keep the tradition of giving alive and ensure we make the Open Source philosophy a standard, not an exception!

For some that might mean helping a neighbour in need, or supporting a charity that matters to you. For others it might mean giving something back to the open source projects that you use on a daily basis, whether that’s by financially supporting the projects, or by giving your time and expertise to contribute in more practical ways.

Today the Mautic project is announcing our intention to financially support the top 10 projects – prioritised by the community – which we depend on to keep our community and product running. We have allocated $2,000 in our budget this year as a starting point for the ‘Back your Stack’ project.

As an open source project, we depend on many other open source projects, some large and some small. We want to play a small part in helping those projects to continue being sustainable. Together we all grow stronger.

For the next two weeks, we have a form which community members can use to prioritise the projects that they would like us to start funding. The top 10 voted projects will receive $200 over the next year from Mautic through GitHub Sponsors or Open Collective.

Share your priorities

We appreciate that $200 per project is not much in the grand scheme of things, but it is a start. Our budget allocation this year represents 4% of our annual budget, and we would love to raise this to closer to 10% in the future as we become more financially stable ourselves. We hope that as our project continues to grow and thrive, the amount we can make available – and therefore the number of projects we can support – will increase.

If you would like to support some or all of these projects on a personal basis or from your company (and we really encourage you to do this, if you are able!), please find the full list of projects we know to be seeking funding below:

Useful resources

How to find dependencies seeking funding

If you use Composer, you can use the command

composer fund

to get a list of your dependencies which are looking for funding.

If you have a public repository on GitHub or a dependency file (e.g. package.json, composer.json, *.csproj, packages.config, Gopkg.lock, Gemfile.lock or requirements.txt), you can use backyourstack.com to pull out a list of dependencies – this only shows links to Open Collective projects but the dependencies are all listed, so you can search for alternative ways to fund the projects (e.g. GitHub Sponsors).

How to add your funding links in your Composer files

You can use the funding markup in your composer.json file to provide links to places where you accept funding.