{"id":21946,"date":"2025-05-24T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mautic.org\/blog\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T07:44:35","slug":"open-startup-report-26-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mautic.org\/blog\/open-startup-report-26-april-2025","title":{"rendered":"Open Startup Report #26 – April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Key points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Financial growth:<\/strong> Substantial income from Mautic Trials and membership renewals contributed to a healthier financial status, despite being slightly adrift from the budget goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Community engagement:<\/strong> Renewed support from the Drupal Association and the integration of new corporate memberships showcase the community’s expanding influence and commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Product development:<\/strong> Continued enhancements with the release of Mautic 5.2.5 and updates to the community portal, improving user experience and system functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. New working groups:<\/strong> Onboarding of new maintainers for Docker and WordPress plugins, addressing long-standing maintenance gaps and planning for future upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Global contributions and participation:<\/strong> Notable contributions from organizations and individuals, with an increase in active contributors and community members, driving forward Mautic\u2019s mission and outreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

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<\/a>, for supporting the Mautic Trials infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a renewal this year from our friends at the Drupal Association<\/a> – 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Description<\/th>Amount<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Trials revenue<\/td>$6,619.50<\/td><\/tr>
Corporate members<\/td>$5,000*<\/td><\/tr>
Monthly sponsors<\/td>$1,105<\/td><\/tr>
Individual members<\/td>$232.26**<\/td><\/tr>
One-time sponsors<\/td>$80<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/strong><\/td>$13,036.76<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

*<\/code> We sold a Community Tier membership this month too (\ud83c\udf89), 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**<\/code> This includes an accidentally duplicated payout from Open Collective’s Stripe account of $66.18 which has been refunded in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Description<\/th>Amount<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Employment<\/td>$8,492.30<\/td><\/tr>
Host fees<\/td>$1,302.69<\/td><\/tr>
Payment processor fees<\/td>$528.24<\/td><\/tr>
Administration<\/td>$306.68<\/td><\/tr>
Infrastructure<\/td>$367.27<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/strong><\/td>$10,997.18<\/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 April!<\/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 April 2025<\/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

Acquia 164 (\u2b07\ufe0f 34.14%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UpScale 110 (\u2b06\ufe0f 32.53%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dropsolid 105 (\u2b06\ufe0f 20.69%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 90 (\u2b06\ufe0f 12.50%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ionutojica 66 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Webmecanik 60 (\u2b07\ufe0f 25.93%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meditationstudies 56 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surge Media 32 (\u2b06\ufe0f 113.33%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comarch 29 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crafting.email 29 (\u2b07\ufe0f 30.95%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Acquia 72 (\u2b07\ufe0f 25%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dropsolid 29 (\u2b07\ufe0f 35.56%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UpScale 26 (\u2b07\ufe0f 3.70%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 12 (\u2b06\ufe0f 20%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aivie 11 (\u2b06\ufe0f 37.50%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Webmecanik 11 (\u2b07\ufe0f 62.07%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comarch 10 (\u2b06\ufe0f 100%) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Media 5 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meditationstudies 4 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c6sir 3<\/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

Renato Castro 257 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Linhart 131 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Voorem\u00e4e 110 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ionu\u0163 Ojic\u0103 66 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson Jos\u00e9 Eccel 57 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominic Mayers 56 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lenon Leite 46 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Wolman 32 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricardo Freire 29 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rahul Shinde 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

John Linhart 45 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Voorem\u00e4e 26 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson Jos\u00e9 Eccel 23 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nilesh Lohar 20 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruth Cheesley 12 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rahul Shinde 11 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zdeno Kuzmany 9 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayu Adiati 7 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artem Lopata 7 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renato 6 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patryk Gruszka 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Pedro Gomes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ElPollero<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PedroLoureiro1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krishu0765 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ERIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gagandeep Singh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renato <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iuri Jorbenadze <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NARITA <\/p>\n\n\n\n

henmohr <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt O’Keefe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Oluwatobi Owolabi 1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Nitsche 1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miami City Man 1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricardo Freire 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 11 new contributors \ud83d\ude80 (\u2b07\ufe0f 13.33%) and 46 new members joining the community !\ud83d\udc96 (\u2b07\ufe0f 46.51%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

\"A
Source: Mautic updates server<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

\"\"
Source: Mautic trials signups<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

The trend is very definitely on the increase, which is great to see with our drive to implement a Composer-by-default install approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Community health<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This month we’ve released Mautic 5.2.5<\/a> with 12 bug fixes, thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Check out the Docker roadmap here<\/a>, and the WordPress plugin roadmap here<\/a>. If you’d like to join either, please let us know via the Slack<\/a> channel #docker or #wordpress-plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

We still have a way to go but we’re making good progress and I’m excited to see how next month pans out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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