{"id":21144,"date":"2025-01-16T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mautic.org\/blog\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:21:10","slug":"open-startup-report-22-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mautic.org\/blog\/open-startup-report-22-december-2024","title":{"rendered":"Open Startup Report #22 – December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Key points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Financial Summary:<\/strong> Mautic’s income this month was $16,428.32, with the majority coming from corporate members. The expenditure was lower at $5,663.35, primarily due to event costs and host fees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Contributions:<\/strong> Contributions from both organizations and individuals were strong this month, with Acquia, Dropsolid, and Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing leading the organizations, and John Linhart, Anderson Jos\u00e9 Eccel, and Martin Voorem\u00e4e among the top individual contributors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Usage of Mautic:<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Community Health:<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Finances<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Income<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Description<\/th>Amount<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
    Corporate members<\/td>$13,934<\/td><\/tr>
    Individual membership<\/td>$694.62<\/td><\/tr>
    Event ticket sales<\/td>$1,020<\/td><\/tr>
    Monthly sponsorship<\/td>$765<\/td><\/tr>
    Refunds<\/td>$14.70<\/td><\/tr>
    Total<\/strong><\/td>$16,428.32<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Expenditure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Description<\/th>Amount<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
    Events<\/td>$3,450.07<\/td><\/tr>
    Host fees<\/td>$1,708.31<\/td><\/tr>
    Infrastructure<\/td>$362.32<\/td><\/tr>
    Payment processor fees<\/td>$132.81<\/td><\/tr>
    Bounty issue payout<\/td>$9.84<\/td><\/tr>
    Total<\/strong><\/td>$5,663.35<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Contributions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in December!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \ud83d\udd0e You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic 90 day report<\/a> and you can now view this month\u2019s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for December 2024<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2b06\ufe0f = Increase from last month
    \u2b07\ufe0f = Decrease from last month<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Organizations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Most active companies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Dropsolid 211 (\u2b07\ufe0f 40.23%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Acquia 196 (\u2b06\ufe0f 100%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 114 (\u2b06\ufe0f 60.56%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    UpScale 89 (\u2b06\ufe0f 196.67%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Aivie 57 (\u2b06\ufe0f 54.05%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Webmecanik 44 (\u2b06\ufe0f 37.50%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Friendly 38 (\u2b07\ufe0f 19.15%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Druid 29 (\u2b07\ufe0f 14.71%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Twentyzen 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Moorwald | Sven D\u00f6ring 22 (\u2b06\ufe0f 22.22%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Top contributing companies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Acquia 34 (\u2b06\ufe0f 17.24%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 29 (\u2b06\ufe0f 107.14%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    UpScale 28 (\u2b06\ufe0f 211.11%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Aivie 14 (\u2b06\ufe0f 75%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Dropsolid 12 (\u2b07\ufe0f 61.29%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Webmecanik 10 (\u2b07\ufe0f 9.09%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Druid 5 (\u2b06\ufe0f 25%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Comarch 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Moorwald | Sven D\u00f6ring 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    octree-gva 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Contributions are as defined here<\/a> 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\u2019s API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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\u2019ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Individuals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community \ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Most active contributors<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    John Linhart 196<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Anderson Jos\u00e9 Eccel 123<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Martin Voorem\u00e4e 89<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mike Van Hemelrijck 80<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rahul Shinde 55<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ekke Guembel 44<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Artem Lopata 43<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Joey Keller 35<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    jc 32<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Laurie Lim 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Top contributors<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    John Linhart 34<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Martin Voorem\u00e4e 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rahul Shinde 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Anderson Jos\u00e9 Eccel 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lamin Njie 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Artem Lopata 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Jonas Ludwig 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Zdeno Kuzmany 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Laurie Lim 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Hugo Prossaird 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Welcome to our new contributors this month \ud83d\udc96<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    jc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    EfeAkhigbe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    andyg5000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Oscar Rodeiro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Holbi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Caique Portela<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Daniel Oladepo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Nestor Brito Medina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Top supporters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    John Linhart 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sascha Foerster 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Avinash Dalvi 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    taxi 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    jc 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ekke Guembel 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ricardo Freire 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Oscar Rodeiro 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    marcus42 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sven D\u00f6ring 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This month we had 8 new contributors :\ud83d\ude80 (\u2b07\ufe0f 40%) and 65 new members joining the community! \ud83d\udc96 (\u2b07\ufe0f 10.96%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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<\/a>. For comparison, 2023 is here<\/a>, 2022 is here<\/a> and 2001 is here<\/a>. There’ll be more in my year-end roundup, but for now here’s some stats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2024 year-end stats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    • 1,124 new members (\u2b06\ufe0f 21% from 885 last year)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 175 new contributors (\u2b06\ufe0f 50% from 117 last year)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 38,044 conversations (\u2b06\ufe0f 38% from 27,529 last year)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 11,874 connections between members (\u2b06\ufe0f 62% from 7,331 last year)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 3,198 contributions (\u2b06\ufe0f 12% from 2,867 last year)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 84 new companies engaging in the community (\u2b06\ufe0f 20% from 105 last year)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 228 events on the calendar (\u2b06\ufe0f 240% from 67 last year)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Here’s the top ten’s for the year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      2024’s most active companies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Dropsolid 4585 (\u2b06\ufe0f 180.60%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Acquia 2950 (\u2b06\ufe0f 52.30%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 1379 (\u2b06\ufe0f 28.52%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Aivie 1030 (\u2b06\ufe0f 78.20%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Axelerant 765 (\u2b06\ufe0f 313.51%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Friendly 677 (\u2b07\ufe0f 55.78%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Webmecanik 674 (\u2b07\ufe0f 29.79%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Crafting.email 591<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      PreviousNext 494 (\u2b06\ufe0f 353.21%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Moorwald | Sven D\u00f6ring 385 (\u2b07\ufe0f 15.01%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      2024’s top contributing companies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Acquia 677 (\u2b06\ufe0f 1.96%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dropsolid 560 (\u2b06\ufe0f 137.29%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 201 (\u2b06\ufe0f 27.22%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Aivie 163 (\u2b06\ufe0f 61.39%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Webmecanik 132 (\u2b07\ufe0f 28.65%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Comarch 95 (\u2b06\ufe0f 15.85%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Axelerant 76 (\u2b06\ufe0f 850%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      UpScale 46<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Friendly 31 (\u2b07\ufe0f 61.25%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Crafting.email 31 (\u2b06\ufe0f 520%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      2024’s most active individuals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      John Linhart 2717<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Anderson Jos\u00e9 Eccel 2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Avinash Dalvi 1591<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Mike Van Hemelrijck 1113<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Rahul Shinde 929<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Joey Keller 658<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Ekke Guembel 612<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Mattias Michaux 609<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Ricardo Freire 591<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Surabhi Gokte 573<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      2024’s top contributing individuals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      John Linhart 541<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Anderson Jos\u00e9 Eccel 323<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Rahul Shinde 161<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Zdeno Kuzmany 109<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Mattias Michaux 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Patryk Gruszka 66<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Simran Sethi 60<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Saurabh Gupta 53<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Rembrand 49<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Ekke Guembel 47<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Here’s the top contribution sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Pull Request 1283<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      GitHub Pull Request Review 829<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Jira Issue Completed 301<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Slack – Support 247<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Community Portal Calendar 252<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Forums Support 128<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Blog Post 52<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Slack – Feedback 47<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Other event 41<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      KB Article 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      MautiCast 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Reddit 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      What a year! \ud83e\udd73<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Usage of Mautic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Community Health<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Contributions from organizations and individuals were robust, with Acquia, Dropsolid, and Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing leading the organizations, and John Linhart, Anderson Jos\u00e9 Eccel, and Martin Voorem\u00e4e among the top individual contributors. Despite the typical drop in contributions during the holiday season, the growth in contributions remains strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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