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Google Summer of Code 2024: Mautic Joins as Mentoring Organization

Ruth Cheesley — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:03:42 +0000

We are delighted to announce that Mautic has been selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024. This will be Mautic’s first year as a mentoring organization, joining the other 195 accepted open-source organizations!

GSoC is a unique opportunity for contributors worldwide to collaborate with Mautic and enhance our open-source marketing automation platform. For those unfamiliar with GSoC, it offers stipends to students and beginners in open-source software development who work on open-source projects over the summer, under the guidance of experienced mentors.

As part of our GSoC program, we are excited to open our doors to new contributors eager to join the Mautic community. This presents an exciting opportunity to enhance your technical skills and gain valuable experience in a collaborative, open-source environment.

You will have the chance to immerse yourself in the community, learning from passionate individuals dedicated to Mautic's project. This unique experience offers contributors the chance to make a real-world impact, contribute to meaningful projects, and receive mentorship from experienced members of the community.

Important Dates for GSoC 2024:

February 22 - March 18: Potential GSoC contributors discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.
March 19 - April 2 18:00 UTC: Potential GSoC contributors will submit proposals through the program website.
April 2 - April 24: We review all submitted GSoC Contributor proposals and consider how many we want to select and how many we can handle (how many we have committed mentors for). We decide on the ranking of our GSoC Contributor slots.
May 1: Accepted GSoC contributor projects announced.
May 1 - 26: Community Bonding Period | GSoC contributors get to know mentors, read documentation, and get up to speed to begin working on their projects.
May 27: Coding officially begins!
July 8: Mentors and GSoC contributors can begin submitting midterm evaluations.
August 19 - 26: Final week: GSoC contributors submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation (standard coding period).
August 26 - September 2: Mentors submit final GSoC contributor evaluations (standard coding period).
September 3: Initial results of Google Summer of Code 2024 Announced.
November 4: Final date for all GSoC contributors to submit their final work product and final evaluation

Refer to the GSoC Timeline for more info.

How You Can Get Involved:

If you're over 18 years old, interested in open source, and meet the eligibility criteria, you can apply to join us as a GSoC 2024 contributor. Reach out to the Mautic community early, exploring project ideas, and join our Slack community for updates and discussions.

Please read Mautic’s contribution guidelines for GSoC and the project ideas before engaging with the community.

The application period ends on March 18 (UTC), so prepare your project proposals and become familiar with Mautic beforehand.

We're excited to be part of Google Summer of Code 2024 and look forward to working with contributors and mentors to make Mautic even better!

Stay tuned for more updates and announcements, and let's make this summer memorable for Mautic and the open-source community!

Mautic recognized as a Digital Public Good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance

Ruth Cheesley — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:00:20 +0000

Mautic’s mission is to enable organizations to deliver world-class digital experiences to their customers by providing powerful open source marketing automation software which is supported by a thriving international community of passionate contributors. Mautic is empowering businesses, charities and organizations worldwide to create meaningful change in the world. To learn more, visit https://mautic.org.

What began as a passionate idea sparked by founder DB Hurley, has grown over the past ten years into the world’s largest open source marketing automation platform, powering the digital experiences of over 40,000 websites in 85 countries worldwide.

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative which is endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General. The goal of the DPGA and its registry is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world, accelerating adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Today, we are delighted to announce that Mautic was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance DPG Registry. 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.

“Being recognised as a digital public good 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.”

said Project Lead, Ruth Cheesley.

“Mautic is truly changing the lives of those who use and contribute to it, and gives confidence to organizations that open source solutions are the way forward for building the digital experience platforms of the future.”

For more information on the Digital Public Goods Alliance please reach out to hello@digitalpublicgoods.net.

Dropsolid becomes a Diamond Tier member of Mautic with an annual commitment of $30,000

Ruth Cheesley — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:57:10 +0000

We are excited to announce that Dropsolid - a leading provider of open digital experience solutions - has made a significant commitment to Mautic - the world's largest open marketing automation platform. The company has pledged an exceptional contribution of $30,000 per year, solidifying its position as a Diamond member, the highest level of membership.

This partnership reflects Dropsolid's ongoing commitment to enabling marketers to create world-class digital experiences which span the entire customer journey. Their annual contribution will help fuel Mautic's mission of democratizing marketing automation and enabling organizations of all sizes to create, manage, track and personalize their customer experiences seamlessly.

"After working with Mautic for the last 6 years integrating it into our product, we are very happy Mautic became an independent project so other companies like ourselves could step up and increase their sponsorship" said Dropsolid CEO, Dominique De Cooman

While the Diamond Tier sponsorship focuses on Dropsolid's financial contribution, they also continue their ongoing commitment as one of the top five companies contributing to the Mautic project including their Director of Engineering Mattias Michaux leading the Product Team and Marketing Expert Mike Van Hemelrijck supporting the UX/UI Tiger Team.

"We are delighted to welcome Dropsolid as our Diamond Tier sponsor. Their generous support will significantly contribute to Mautic’s ambitious plans for growth. We look forward to working along with Dropsolid and achieving our shared vision for Mautic to become the worldwide open marketing automation platform of choice." said Mautic Project Lead, Ruth Cheesley.

For more updates about this partnership and upcoming projects, follow Dropsolid and Mautic on their respective social channels.

About Dropsolid

Dropsolid is a world leading open digital experience provider with an open DXP and implementation services. The company, with offices in Belgium, Portugal and the United States, focuses on delivering scalable, secure, and user-friendly open source platforms which businesses can personalize to their needs, ensuring optimal interaction with their customers. Check out the the Dropsolid DXP.

About Mautic

Mautic is the world's largest open source marketing automation project. With 40,000+ organizations using Mautic and over 700 community volunteers, we empower businesses by making it easy to manage their marketing across a range of channels.

Mautic Open Startup Report #9 - December 2023

Ruth Cheesley — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:53:22 +0000

Key points

This month has seen a growth in memberships, however we have not met the target we set for our end-of-year financial goals, being just under $38,000 short. The year end saw us with a positive balance of just under $68,000 across our various projects on Open Collective. Greater focus will need to paid to bringing in more revenue streams going forward, to ensure Mautic's future financial stability.

We've seen substantial contributions towards the Mautic 5 release which will be made as General Availability in early January.

There continues to be strong growth in adoption, with a 120% increase compared with Q4 2022 in terms of deployed websites with Mautic tracking.

Finances

This month saw a strong growth in memberships, boosted by the Council elections which required membership to vote for nominated candidates. There has also been some movement in corporate memberships, but uptake has been slower than anticipated.

We end the year $37,756 short of the goal that I had set for the end of this financial year in respect of income from individual and corporate memberships, sponsorships, proceeds from MautiCon events and the trials project which will be launching next quarter.

With a year-end balance across all our accounts at Open Collective of $67,714.82 we can carry such a shortfall, but must continue to drive forward revenue-growth opportunities in the new year to ensure that we meet our goal of $205,370 income against a projected expenditure of $147,491.

The end of year balance of the relevant accounts is provided as follows for this year and the preceding two years for comparison - all amounts are in USD.

Account	Balance 31-12-2023	Balance 31-12-2022	Balance 31-12-2021
Main collective	55,454.68	11,084.85	13,336.85
Infrastructure working group	1,014.81	1,052.22	3,958.22
Marketplace initiative	391.23	293.31	260.67
MautiCon India	0.11
Mautic Meetup Valencia	217.01
Community Team	167.64	144	2088
Bounties	3,600
Next Generation	1,212.39	1212.03	1000
Education Team	0.61
Builders initiative	1,225	0	0
Developer Days event	16.27
Marketing team	1,224.01	2103	3235
LATAM community	382.84
Product Team	379.92	2689.92
Install/Upgrade initiative	428.3	428.3	428.3
Resource management initiative	1,000	1000	1000
Composer initiative	1,000	1000	1000
Season of Docs 22		7799.22
MautiCon Europe			1009.06
MautiCon Global 22			4875
Total cash at bank	67,714.82	28,806.85	26,307.04

Several of the accounts (for example team projects) have positive funds which were not spent from the previous year's budget. These will be factored into any future budget requests accordingly.

Income

This month is the last month for Acquia's monthly financial support, and we also signed a new Bronze sponsor this month. An invoice was also raised for a Diamond sponsor at the end of the year, which will be paid in the new year.

There was a strong growth in individual memberships, which was largely driven by the Council elections requiring membership to vote for the nominated candidates.

We continue to have some income from regular monthly sponsorships which is much appreciated, and this month Mautic Meetup Valencia signed their first sponsor of the monthly meetups.

Description	Amount
Corporate membership	$11,200
Sponsors	$815
Individual membership	$760
Meetup sponsor	$100

Expenditure

This month we have incurred costs for the upcoming Mautic Conference India event which needed paying upfront and will be recouped via sponsorship and ticket sales. Other costs remain stable.

Description	Amount
Employment (November)	$8,685.28
MautiCon India venue	$2,332.82
Host fee	$1,287.50
Infrastructure	$343.15
Sessionize license (50% off)	$249.50
Postage	$4.08

Contributions

Kudos to these organizations that are taking Mautic to great heights and driving our growth! All set to delve into the numbers?

Let's take a look at the statistics from the last 90 days: Mautic | Last 90 Days

You can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for December 2023

⬆️ = Increase from last month
⬇️ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

rectorphp 246 (⬆️ 602.86%)
Axelerant 145
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 144 (⬆️ 89.47%)
Acquia 118 (⬆️ 57.33%)
PreviousNext 96
Webmecanik 83 (⬇️ 44.30%)
Dropsolid 48 (⬇️ 14.29%)
Friendly 37 (⬇️ 15.91%)
Codefive 23 (⬇️ 25.81%)
Sales Snap 20

Top contributing companies

Acquia 110 (⬆️ 243.75%)
rectorphp 96 (⬆️ 772.73%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 22 (⬆️ 100%)
Webmecanik 18 (⬇️ 45.45%)
Dropsolid 8 (⬇️ 11.11%)
Comarch 7 (⬇️ 30%)
Friendly 3 (⬇️ 25%)
Bluespace 3
Axelerant 3
ip2location.com 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 your organization to shine here? Start contributing now!

Individuals

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community!

Most active contributors

Avinash Dalvi 286
Tomas Votruba 246
Surabhi Gokte 143
John Linhart 105
Rahul Shinde 97
Mohit Aghera 96
Anderson Eccel 82
Norman Pracht 47
Joey Keller 37
Zdeno Kuzmany 34

Top contributors

John Linhart 101
Tomas Votruba 96
Anderson Eccel 20
Zdeno Kuzmany 13
Artem Lopata 7
putzwasser 6
Patryk Gruszka 5
Patrick Jenkner 5
Rahul Shinde 5
Mike Van Hemelrijck 4

Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖

Anderson Eccel
Pablo Hörtner
Mike Van Hemelrijck
Prateek Jain
IP2Location

Top supporters

John Linhart 2
Joey Keller 1
Mike Van Hemelrijck 1
Ekke 1
Zdeno Kuzmany 1
Patrick Jenkner 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 6 new contributors 🚀 (⬇️ 33%) and 57 new members joining the community !💖 (⬇️ 8%).

Usage of Mautic

We continue to see around 4,000 tracked downloads via mautic.org/download each quarter as detailed below. It's important to note that this does not represent all installs of Mautic - we have a good proportion of people who install Mautic via Composer, via a GitHub download, or simply re-use their base Mautic installer files.

We've had a slight drop in the number of installs of the API library this month via Composer, but a rising trend of Mautic installs which has almost doubled - as measured by the use of the mautic/core-lib package.

We continue to see strong growth in websites being deployed with Mautic tracking enabled, with over 5,200 being detected in Q4 2023. This represents over a 120% increase compared with Q4 2022.

Indeed, when we consider the number of domains with active Mautic tracking, we see just short of a 100% increase between Q4 2022 and Q4 2023 (from 19,531 to 38,801).

We're also seeing continued growth in GitHub star count tracking above the projected trendline, which is promising, especially when you consider Mautic's growth against other open source projects.

Community Health

December has been a quiet month in the Community, with many people celebrating the various festivals around the world, from Hanukkah to the Winter Solstice and Christmas.

As a result, we saw less new community members and contributors this month, which is a common occurrence each year.

We did, however, have a dramatic rise in the number of contributions in December, up from around 130 per month over the last quarter to a staggering 351 in December! A vast number of these contributions are from people who are helping us with testing new features and bug fixes in the Mautic 5.0 Release Candidate, and also a big thanks to Tomas Votruba from Rector who contributed a stunning 96 pull requests to help update and improve Mautic's codebase.

Something we are monitoring closely is the drop-off in numbers on our Google Analytics properties - this could be associated with the switch to Google Analytics v4. Prior to Q3 2023 we averaged around 120,000 visitors per quarter, but recently this has dropped to around 80,000, The marketing team will dig into this in more detail.

Conclusion

Overall, December has been a quiet month with many people taking time off over to celebrate festivities. Despite this there has been a tremendous amount of work getting ready for the Mautic 5.0 release next month, with many improvements and bug fixes being tested and merged super efficiently by the core team.

While we are financially not quite at the place where we wanted to be, we have made significant progress since becoming an independent project and I take heart from the growth in number of memberships being taken out, that we're on the right track.

Going forward this will continue to be a focus into the coming year, to ensure that we can stay afloat without the generous seed funding that Acquia provided us during this transitional phase.