Monthly Stats - July 2009

[clem]

Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

* $217, Achim Leybach (Germany) - http://www.leybach.de/
* $200, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) - http://www.americanbroadbandservice.com/
* $200, Bob Osborn (USA)
* $150 (2nd donation), Alan D S. (USA)
* $101, Gavin Engel (USA)
* $100, Ronald S. (USA)
* $74, Richard L. (United Kingdom)
* $73, HJG Gommers (Netherlands)
* $72, Frans Van O. (Netherlands)
* $72, Frederick W. (Ireland)
* $51, Rupert Halliday aka “rhalliday” (United Kingdom)
* $50, Benjamin W. (USA)
* $50, Roland Stohler (Switzerland)
* $50, Peter Jonsson (Sweden)
* $50, Virtual Dedicated Server VDS Hosting Provider (Canada) - http://compevo.com/
* $50, Leonard O. (United Kingdom)
* $50, Bodyartforms (USA)
* $44, Lucien B. (France)
* $44, Marco T. (Italy)
* $43, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
* $40, David A B. (USA)
* $37, Manuel F. (Portugal)
* $35, David N. (Czech Republic)
* $30, Adam S. (USA)
* $30, Richard B Thompson (USA)
* $30, James M. (Australia)
* $30, Pawel B. (Poland)
* $28, g.premper (Germany)
* $28, Emmanouil Parousis aka “Till” (Greece) - http://tilltheblog.blogspot.com/
* $28, Gilles D. (France)
* $28, Luis H. O. (Spain)
* $26, David Bandiera aka “daba” (Belgium)
* $25 (2nd donation), William S. (USA)
* $25, Nicholas G. (USA)
* $25, David P. (USA)
* $25, Greg J. (USA)
* $25, Robert L. (USA)
* $25, Robert S. (USA)
* $25, upFront.eZine Publishing, Ltd. aka “lurker” (Canada) - http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/
* $20, Simon Teppett (United Kingdom)
* $20, Mario P. (Italy)
* $20, Keith D. aka “kpd001″ (Canada)
* $20, Nick M. (Australia)
* $20, Jean Morin (Canada)
* $20, Graham C. aka “gee7″ (United Kingdom)
* $20, SCN aka “scn” (Thailand)
* $20, Gerardo Alberto F. R. (Mexico)
* $20, Sri G. R. J. (USA)
* $20, Nathaniel Elam aka “nelamvr6″ (USA)
* $20, Maurice H. (USA)
* $20, Thomas T. (USA)
* $20, Nektarios K. (United Kingdom)
* $20, David S. (Czech Republic)
* $20, Anthony G. (United Kingdom)
* $18, Flessner Enterprises (USA)
* $17, Gordon W. (United Kingdom)
* $15, Matthew G. (USA)
* $14.5, Jackson W. (USA)
* $14, Mark W. (United Kingdom)
* $14, Robert B. (United Kingdom)
* $14, Damien G. (France)
* $14, Richard Farrell aka “Vyper68″ (United Kingdom)
* $14, Alan H. (United Kingdom)
* $14, Michael B. (Germany)
* $10 (5th donation), Frank Bechstein (Germany) - http://www.gamer-site.de/
* $10, Ole Reidar Gunnberg (United Kingdom)
* $10, Jamie Cameron aka “jamiec” (United Kingdom)
* $10, Jordan L. (USA)
* $10, Charles H. (USA)
* $10, Leon O. (Australia)
* $10, Raphael C. (World)
* $10, Vjaceslavs L. (Latvia)
* $10, Karolis Pocius (United Kingdom) - http://karolis.pocius.lt/
* $10, Simen D aka “Winxzy” (Norway) - http://www.winxzy.info/
* $10, Gustav Holm aka “Gustav” (Sweden) - http://www.gustavholm.com/
* $10, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
* $10, Libor F. (Czech Republic)
* $10, Chris G. aka “Chris_G” (USA)
* $10, Danie van der Merwe aka “Danie” (South Africa) - http://dvdmerwe.googlepages.com/
* $10, 聶 聡 (Satoshi J.) (Japan)
* $10, Jonathan H. (New Zealand)
* $8.21, Christopher S. (United Kingdom)
* $7, Ben W. (USA)
* $7, Reza S. (Germany)
* $5, Holger S. (Germany)
* $5, Scott B. (USA)
* $5, Ian T Davis aka “ian@m5j21″ (United Kingdom) - http://www.iantdavis.btinternet.co.uk/
* $5, Christopher Vogel (Germany)
* $5, Platypus Products (USA)
* $5, Radu Bogdan Draghiciu (Romania)
* $5, Karin K. aka “Kalhandra” (Australia) - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =431664975
* $5, Michael K. (USA)
* $5, Joachim Bergstrom (Norway)
* $3.5, Corey K. (Canada)
* $3, Winton Technologies (USA)
* $2, Gowri S. M (India)
* $1, Ruben C. M. (Spain)
* $1, Abdu S. (Saudi Arabia)
* $1, Tony F. (Ireland)
* $1, Mohd R. R. (Malaysia)

Sponsors:

* $100, Host Color (USA) - http://www.hostcolor.com/vps
* $75, John Ritchie (Aging Technogeek - USA)
* $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) - http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com
* $40, Az Van (newW2 - USA)
* $25, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) - http://www.americanbroadbandservice.com
* $20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim - Germany) - http://www.immobilien-es.com
* $20, Scott P. (USA)
* $11, cheap vps hosting - http://www.neosurge.com
* $10, Stitz Computers, LLC (USA) - http://stitzcomputers.com
* $10, Rechtsberatung, Steuerberatung, Internetrecht (Tim) - http://www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de
* $10 Gustav Holm (Sweden) - http://gustavholm.com
* $10, Progboys.Com (UK) - http://www.progboys.com
* $7, Unixmen - http://www.unixmen.com/
* $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя - USA)
* $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) - http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
* $6, Attila Vecsei (Finland) - http://www.vecsei.net
* $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.
* $5, DLX Company (USA) - http://www.dlxcompany.com/
* $5, Stuart C.
* $5, Paul S.
* $3.5, Ian Egland (Echolynx - USA)
* $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
* $2, Funkelectric (Spain) - http://www.funkelectric.com/
* $2, NVISN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING (USA) - http://www.nvisn.com/
* $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, Cyprus Property (Cyprus) - http://www.leptosestates.com/
* $1, Недвижимость на Кипре (Cyprus) - http://www.leptos-estates.ru/
* $1, Prasad S.R. (India) - http://saysprasad.wordpress.com/
* $1, Surf in Peace (UK) - http://www.surfinpeace.co.uk/
* $1, Alex Smith (UK) - http://nullroute.me
* $1 Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) - http://jasiulewicz.pl
* $1, Poker Bankroll (France) - http://www.thebankrollers.com/
* $1, Erin G.
* $0.5, Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap - Netherlands)
* $0.5, Nottingham web design (UK) - http://www.drawmyattention.co.uk/

Money raised in June:

* Donations: $2984.21 (100 donors)
* Sponsors: $465.5 (42 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

* Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 68% (+8%)
* Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 20% (-6%)
* Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 8% (-1%)
* Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 4%

Web Stats:

* Visits: 1,673,439 (+7.26%)
* Pageviews: 3,037,810 (+3.32%)
* Page impressions: 1,237,530
* Search queries: 3,698,209
* Forum users: 18,984
* Forum posts:165,650

Rankings:

* Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1275 (4th)
* Distrowatch (traffic share): 3.9% (2nd)
* Alexa (website ranking): 27,636th

Events:

* Linux Mint 7 Gloria XFCE RC1 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=962
* Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE RC1 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=935
* mintCast released 2 episodes of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/

Summary:

* July 2009 was the (5th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
* The overall income is up 5%.
* Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.
* The community support is outstanding: 100 people donated last month for a total of $2984 and our sponsors raised $465.
* A lot of work was done on the upcoming Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’ and on the releases of the community editions. Launchpad and Github were adopted and will have a positive impact on our efficiency. The real challenge is still ahead as Linux Mint lost its novelty factor within the Linux community and hasn’t managed to catch the attention of the media in order to compete with widespread commercial operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS.

[ebaut]

congratulations!!! ^_^

[markfiend]

* $14, Mark W. (United Kingdom)

That was me. You're welcome. (Actually £10 GB)