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Donations & Sponsorships:

Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

Donors:

* $147, Andrew K. (Russia)
* $147, Daniel F. (Germany)
* $147, Rodney M. (Australia)
* $110, Aleksandr A. (Russia)
* $100, 12EasyHosting (USA)
* $100, Loyal B. (USA)
* $100, Terry B. (USA)
* $100, Reject the Herd (USA)
* $77, Peter T. (Australia)
* $74, David N. (Czech Republic)
* $74 (2nd donation), Eric H. (Germany)
* $74, Marwan B. (Ireland)
* $73 (5th donation), John Trapp (foggytown – USA)
* $72, Sean R. (USA)
* $60 (2nd donation), William R. (USA)
* $50 (3rd donation), Arron J. (UK)
* $50 (2nd donation), Barry Patterson (UK) - http://www.redsandstonehill.net
* $50, Lauro F. (Switzerland)
* $50, Paul M. (UK)
* $50, Andrew F. (Australia)
* $50, S R W. (Malaysia)
* $50, Krishna M. (USA)
* $50, Rodney C. (USA)
* $50, Scott P. (USA)
* $44 (2nd donation), Uwe S. (Germany)
* $44, Jonas G. (Sweden)
* $41 (5th donation), Peter Fitzsimons (UK)
* $35, Fernando G. (Mexico)
* $30, Lipton C. (UK)
* $30, Bernard B. (USA)
* $30, Juergen G. (Canada)
* $29 (3rd donation), Marco R. (Italy)
* $29 (2nd donation), Peter Kasbergen (PiEp – Netherlands) - http://www.piep.nu/
* $29, Gilles J. (France)
* $29, Frans N. (Netherlands)
* $29, Diego C. (Ireland)
* $25 (2nd donation), William S. (USA)
* $25, James M. (USA)
* $25, Michael F. (USA)
* $25, Colin C. (Canada)
* $25, Joel O. (USA)
* $25, Daniel B. (USA)
* $25, Joseph K. (USA)
* $25, Mike E. (USA)
* $22, Stephen P. (UK)
* $20 (2nd donation), David S. (UK)
* $20 (2nd donation), Carl K. (USA)
* $20, Paul G. (USA)
* $20, Mike D. (USA)
* $20, Dale B. (USA)
* $20, Paul G. (USA)
* $20, Sam R. (USA)
* $20, Sebastian C. (Australia)
* $20, Bill E. (USA)
* $20, Kenneth S. (USA)
* $20, Gary V. (USA)
* $15, Kostas G. (Greece)
* $15, Ole P. (Denmark)
* $15, Herman V. (Belgium)
* $15, Pavel U. (Czech Republic)
* $15, Jakub G. (Poland)
* $25, Richard G. (USA)
* $15, Tim K. (Germany)
* $15, Urs M. (Switzerland)
* $15, Daniel W. (Switzerland)
* $15, Catalin T. (Romania)
* $15, David B. (Ireland)
* $15, Andrew A. (USA)
* $15, Nikos A. (Greece)
* $15, Pawe P. (Poland)
* $15, Carl B. (Belgium)
* $15, Zak McG. (Australia)
* $10 (9th donation), Phillip Blake (USA)
* $10 (2nd donation), Justin Peterson (USA) - http://www.jp23.net/
* $10 (2nd donation), David Morris (DPMorris – USA)
* $10, Garry K. (USA)
* $10, Jonathan H. (New Zealand)
* $10, Clemens N. (USA)
* $10, Mark C. (UK)
* $10, Csaba S. (Hungary)
* $9, Georgetta B. (Romania)
* $9, Agostino G. (Italy)
* $8, Clyde N. (USA)
* $7, Monika P. (Estonia)
* $7, Lennart B. (Germany)
* $5, Jose P. (USA)
* $5, Marijan D. (Croatia)
* $5, Khalil S. (USA)
* $2, Bruno L. (Brazil)
* $1, Zekeriya t K. (Turkey)
* $1, Julie S. (USA)

Sponsors:

* $100, Host Color (USA) - http://www.hostcolor.com/vps
* $70, Philippe Lotz (alsaphil - France)
* $50, Linux-Onlineshop (Germany) - http://www.linux-onlineshop.de
* $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) - http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
* $40, Az Van (newW2 - USA)
* $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim - Germany) - http://www.immobilien-es.com
* $10, Lucas W.
* $8, Unixmen - http://www.unixmen.com/
* $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя - USA)
* $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) - http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
* $5, linuxmint-fr.org (ludal - France) - http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
* $5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino / prior123 - Italy) - http://www.linuxmint-italia.org
* $5, Guillermo Enrique Guglietti (Canada) - http://www.urbancsa.org
* $5, Sohier C.
* $5, Christopher D.
* $3.5, Ian Egland (Echolynx - USA)
* $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
* $2, Funkelectric (Spain) - http://www.funkelectric.com/
* $1, BusinessSale - http://www.webvaluer.org
* $1, very-clever.com - http://www.very-clever.com
* $1, Busybits - http://www.busybits.com
* $1, linboo.com - http://www.linboo.com
* $1, Expert Bookings - http://www.expert-bookings.com
* $1, Prasad S.R. (India) - http://saysprasad.wordpress.com/
* $0.5, Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap - Netherlands)

Money raised in May:

* Donations: $3135
* Sponsors: $396

http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

* Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 4%
* Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 11%
* Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 37%
* Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 48%

Web Stats:

* Visits: 1,378,407 (+12.45%)
* Pageviews: 2,689,945 (+15.06%)
* Page impressions: 1,425,021
* Search queries: 2,564,610
* Forum users: 16650
* Forum posts: 146441

Rankings:

* Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1408 (3rd)
* Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.3% (2nd)
* Alexa (website ranking): 31,388th

Events:

* Linux Mint 7 Gloria was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=847
* Linux Mint 7 Gloria RC1 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=796
* mintCast released 3 episodes of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/

Summary:

* We've received a fantastic amount of support from the community last month. Donations have never been so high. 91 people donated money in May for a total of $3135. That's about 3 times the average we normally get.
* All indicators show a boom in the size of our user base.
* Among Distrowatch visitors, Linux Mint (4.3%) has twice as many users as Mandriva (2.1%) and Fedora (1.8%) and 3 times as many as OpenSuse (1.4%).
* The Overall income is up 33%, and May 2009 was the best month ever since the start of the distribution.

Great news! It is really nice to see things going so well!

Yes it's great to see, it would be awesome to see just 1/4 of the users throw in at least $2.

How does one make a donation? greenjoe
Thank you Husse...

greenjoe
Go here

consider setting up for peeps to donate a set amount monthly.

Chasester wrote:consider setting up for peeps to donate a set amount monthly.

Thank you for the idea, but that's called a sponsor - it already exists for any amount

Husse wrote:

Chasester wrote:consider setting up for peeps to donate a set amount monthly.

Thank you for the idea, but that's called a sponsor - it already exists for any amount

ahh, thought that was for advertising and what not.