Key points
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Financial Summary: Mautic's income this month was $16,867.80, with the majority coming from corporate members. The expenditure was lower at $5,663.35, primarily due to event costs and host fees.
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Contributions: Contributions from both organizations and individuals were strong this month, with Acquia, Dropsolid, and Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing leading the organizations, and John Linhart, Anderson José Eccel, and Martin Vooremäe among the top individual contributors.
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Usage of Mautic: The adoption of the 5.x version of Mautic continues to increase, now accounting for 64% of updated instances. The number of Mautic instances updating in Q4 was the second-highest ever, indicating a positive growth trend.
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Community Health: Despite the typical drop in contributions during the holiday season, the overall growth in contributions remains strong. The upcoming Mautic 6 release is expected to spur a flurry of activity.
Finances
I mentioned in November at Mautic Conference Europe my concerns that we were going to be facing a deficit at the end of the year if we didn't turn things around. While we have managed to bring in some more revenue since then and have a strong pipeline for the start of 2025, the year-end financial report will provide full details of the final outcomes which includes a deficit.
Income
This month saw Webmecanik upgrading their Silver membership to Gold, and also saw a lot of individual members renewing their membership. We received the income from Mautic Conference Europe ticket sales from Stripe, and also had one individual membership refund processed from someone who didn't realise it recurred annually and wished to cancel. Monthly sponsorship remains stable.
| Description | Amount |
|---|---|
| Corporate members | $12,734 |
| Individual membership | $1,894.62 |
| Event ticket sales | $1,020 |
| Monthly sponsorship | $765 |
| Refunds | $14.70 |
| Total | $16,867.80 |
Expenditure
This month we missed approving the invoice from Open Collective due to vacations over December, so that will appear in next month's expenditure. Several invoices relating to Mautic Conference Europe have been paid in December, and the other expenses are as expected.
| Description | Amount |
|---|---|
| Events | $3,450.07 |
| Host fees | $1,708.31 |
| Infrastructure | $362.32 |
| Payment processor fees | $132.81 |
| Bounty issue payout | $9.84 |
| Total | $5,663.35 |
Contributions
A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in December!
These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community!
🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic 90 day report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for December 2024!
⬆️ = Increase from last month
⬇️ = Decrease from last month
Organizations
Most active companies
Dropsolid 211 (⬇️ 40.23%)
Acquia 196 (⬆️ 100%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 114 (⬆️ 60.56%)
UpScale 89 (⬆️ 196.67%)
Aivie 57 (⬆️ 54.05%)
Webmecanik 44 (⬆️ 37.50%)
Friendly 38 (⬇️ 19.15%)
Druid 29 (⬇️ 14.71%)
Twentyzen 27
Moorwald | Sven Döring 22 (⬆️ 22.22%)
Top contributing companies
Acquia 34 (⬆️ 17.24%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 29 (⬆️ 107.14%)
UpScale 28 (⬆️ 211.11%)
Aivie 14 (⬆️ 75%)
Dropsolid 12 (⬇️ 61.29%)
Webmecanik 10 (⬇️ 9.09%)
Druid 5 (⬆️ 25%)
Comarch 4
Moorwald | Sven Döring 2
octree-gva 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 196
Anderson José Eccel 123
Martin Vooremäe 89
Mike Van Hemelrijck 80
Rahul Shinde 55
Ekke Guembel 44
Artem Lopata 43
Joey Keller 35
jc 32
Laurie Lim 28
Top contributors
John Linhart 34
Martin Vooremäe 28
Rahul Shinde 14
Anderson José Eccel 11
Lamin Njie 11
Artem Lopata 9
Jonas Ludwig 7
Zdeno Kuzmany 6
Laurie Lim 5
Hugo Prossaird 3
Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖
jc
EfeAkhigbe
andyg5000
Oscar Rodeiro
Holbi
Caique Portela
Daniel Oladepo
Nestor Brito Medina
Top supporters
John Linhart 2
Sascha Foerster 1
Avinash Dalvi 1
taxi 1
jc 1
Ekke Guembel 1
Ricardo Freire 1
Oscar Rodeiro 1
marcus42 1
Sven Döring 1
Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.
This month we had 8 new contributors :🚀 (⬇️ 40%) and 65 new members joining the community! 💖 (⬇️ 10.96%).
This month is also special because it marks the end of the calendar year, so we get our annual roundup report which you can find here. For comparison, 2023 is here, 2022 is here and 2001 is here. There'll be more in my year-end roundup, but for now here's some stats:
2024 year-end stats
- 1,124 new members (⬆️ 21% from 885 last year)
- 175 new contributors (⬆️ 50% from 117 last year)
- 38,044 conversations (⬆️ 38% from 27,529 last year)
- 11,874 connections between members (⬆️ 62% from 7,331 last year)
- 3,198 contributions (⬆️ 12% from 2,867 last year)
- 84 new companies engaging in the community (⬆️ 20% from 105 last year)
- 228 events on the calendar (⬆️ 240% from 67 last year)
A massive thank you to every individual and organisation who have given your time to Mautic this year, without you we would not be anywhere near the progress we're making right now. You're all my heroes! :mautibot:
Here's the top ten's for the year:
2024's most active companies
Dropsolid 4585 (⬆️ 180.60%)
Acquia 2950 (⬆️ 52.30%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 1379 (⬆️ 28.52%)
Aivie 1030 (⬆️ 78.20%)
Axelerant 765 (⬆️ 313.51%)
Friendly 677 (⬇️ 55.78%)
Webmecanik 674 (⬇️ 29.79%)
Crafting.email 591
PreviousNext 494 (⬆️ 353.21%)
Moorwald | Sven Döring 385 (⬇️ 15.01%)
2024's top contributing companies
Acquia 677 (⬆️ 1.96%)
Dropsolid 560 (⬆️ 137.29%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 201 (⬆️ 27.22%)
Aivie 163 (⬆️ 61.39%)
Webmecanik 132 (⬇️ 28.65%)
Comarch 95 (⬆️ 15.85%)
Axelerant 76 (⬆️ 850%)
UpScale 46
Friendly 31 (⬇️ 61.25%)
Crafting.email 31 (⬆️ 520%)
2024's most active individuals
John Linhart 2717
Anderson José Eccel 2028
Avinash Dalvi 1591
Mike Van Hemelrijck 1113
Rahul Shinde 929
Joey Keller 658
Ekke Guembel 612
Mattias Michaux 609
Ricardo Freire 591
Surabhi Gokte 573
2024's top contributing individuals
John Linhart 541
Anderson José Eccel 323
Rahul Shinde 161
Zdeno Kuzmany 109
Mattias Michaux 73
Patryk Gruszka 66
Simran Sethi 60
Saurabh Gupta 53
Rembrand 49
Ekke Guembel 47
Here's the top contribution sources:
Pull Request 1283
GitHub Pull Request Review 829
Jira Issue Completed 301
Slack - Support 247
Community Portal Calendar 252
Forums Support 128
Blog Post 52
Slack - Feedback 47
Other event 41
KB Article 11
MautiCast 6
Reddit 1
What a year! 🥳
Usage of Mautic
We are continuing to see more Mautic instances shifting from earlier versions of Mautic as the 5.x series becomes more stable, with 64% of Mautic instances updating this quarter now being on some version in the 5.x series.
In Q4 we saw the second highest number of Mautic instances updating in all time - second only to Q2 2020. This shows a return to the higher numbers we saw back then after something of a lull in 2022-2023. This could be that more folks are getting around to updating their older instances, or that we have more live instances which are being regularly updated. Either way, the trend is in a positive direction of growth.
It's important to remember that the data from the stats server will never be the complete picture - many organizations will block calls to external sites through their firewall, or turn off sending the stats information entirely - but we can use it as a rough yardstick approximation for the number of active sites.
When we look at websites which have Mautic tracking deployed - remembering that this, too, is not a direct correlation of the number of live Mautic instances, because tracking from one instance can be on many domains, and some users don't use the web tracking at all - we can see that there continues to be a positive trend of new sites deploying Mautic tracking over time The red line shows all websites that have ever had Mautic tracking deployed by quarter first discovered, and the blue line only shows those which are still known to be active.
This metric should only be used as a very rough approximation as it is subject to significant variations over time - for example if lots of websites using the same tracking code are deployed or removed.
Community Health
December saw our typical drop in contributions as many folks are spending time with families during holidays. That being said, we're still seeing a strong growth in contributions if we look back even a couple of years, which is great to see.
As we come up to the Mautic 6 release we're expecting to see a flurry of activity, because we won't be making any further feature releases until 7.0 due to the 6.0 release being a shorter 'bridging release' to help us catch up with Symfony releases.
Conclusion
In December, Mautic saw a healthy financial income of $16,867.80, primarily from corporate members, in particular, Webmecanik upgrading their membership to Gold. The expenditure was lower at $5,663.35, largely due to event costs and host fees and a missed invoice for employment expenses. The financial report for the year-end will provide full details of the final outcomes.
Contributions from organizations and individuals were robust, with Acquia, Dropsolid, and Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing leading the organizations, and John Linhart, Anderson José Eccel, and Martin Vooremäe among the top individual contributors. Despite the typical drop in contributions during the holiday season, the growth in contributions remains strong.
Mautic usage continues to grow, with the adoption of the latest 5.x version increasing. The number of instances updating in Q4 was the second-highest ever, indicating a positive growth trend. The Mautic community is looking forward to the flurry of activity expected with the upcoming Mautic 6 release. Despite the challenges of the holiday season, the community continues to grow and contribute to the development and success of Mautic. I'm excited for the coming year and grateful to everybody who has contributed to Mautic's growth this year.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/open-startup-report-22-december-2024