Monthly Stats - February 2011

[clem]

Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

* $300 (4th donation), Ian M. aka “bcc4foss“
* $100, Trevor H.
* $79.2 (5th donation), Orlando M. M.
* $66, Chris S.
* $66, Gerhard W.
* $66, Joan E. M.
* $66, Joerg H.
* $66, Ilkka M.
* $52.8 (2nd donation), Rafael G. V.
* $50 (15th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
* $50 (2nd donation), Carl G.
* $50 (2nd donation), Sigbjorn S.
* $50, William S.
* $50, Charles H. aka “Thanks Chattr and Gingerbread-Man “
* $50, Russell R.
* $50, Timothy R.
* $50, George C.
* $45, William D.
* $39.6 (4th donation), Laurent P.
* $39.6, Pavol Duris aka “pavuk”
* $39.6, Rufus
* $33, Sander T.
* $33, J F. C.
* $33, Markus G.
* $33, Kai P.
* $30 (8th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
* $30 (3rd donation), Avery W. aka “willie42″
* $30, Stephen L.
* $26.4 (17th donation), Manuel F.
* $26.4 (12th donation), Olli K.
* $26.4 (2nd donation), Joe U. aka “Leit“
* $26.4, Michiel M.
* $26.4, Robert N.
* $26.4, Fabio C.
* $26.4, Gareth C.
* $25 (7th donation), Jay Stewart aka “jag1182″
* $25 (5th donation), Kenny Hendrick aka “NprComputers“
* $25 (4th donation), tommy_b
* $25 (4th donation), Kamal aka “anim8″
* $25 (3rd donation), Anthony F H.
* $25 (2nd donation), scott_n aka “3dBeef”
* $25 (2nd donation), Anders K.
* $25 (2nd donation), Isaac Luria
* $25, Michael R.
* $25, John H.
* $25, Brian Wisti
* $25, Gerry L.
* $25, Matthew C.
* $24, Thomas S.
* $20 (11th donation), Matthew M.
* $20 (6th donation), Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel”
* $20 (2nd donation), Doug Berch
* $20 (2nd donation), Ian M.
* $20, WakeHost
* $20, Denis L.
* $20, Špiro T.
* $20, James C.
* $20, Juergen G.
* $20, Bruce N.
* $20, Wayne C.
* $20, Darin B.
* $19.8 (5th donation), Michael Krusch aka “MAD”
* $19.8, Johannes H.
* $19.8, Hendrik G.
* $19.8, Jean-noël T.
* $19.8, Pierre M. (2nd contribution)
* $19, Janos M.
* $15 (8th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
* $15 (4th donation), Jun Q.
* $15 (2nd donation), Anthony L.
* $15 (2nd donation), Adriano R. aka “drr00t”
* $15, Armando C.
* $14.66, Thomas W.
* $13.2, Patrick D.
* $13.2, Bo J.
* $13.2, Ekhi Z.
* $13.2, Henric N.
* $13.2, Frank R.
* $12.46 (3rd donation), Crefelean Nicolae aka “kneekoo“
* $10 (7th donation), William S. aka “Supergoo”
* $10 (5th donation), Nobutoshi K. aka “founcid”
* $10 (4th donation), Craig Stock aka “craig10x”
* $10 (2nd donation), Ralf H.
* $10 (2nd donation), Matthew C.
* $10 (2nd donation), Anonymous
* $10 (2nd donation), Kiril Sotirov
* $10 (2nd donation), Ian W. aka “Wiggy25″
* $10, Manuel W.
* $10, David G.
* $10, Adauto G. D. C.
* $10, Stephen N.
* $10, Curtis M.
* $10, WebpageFX
* $10, Mitch W.
* $10, Itoi H. aka “kibidango“
* $10, Cosmin M. Stroe
* $10, Cristiano S.
* $10, Vicente B. M.
* $10, Gabriele C.
* $10, Frants C.
* $10, Anthony G.
* $10, Adam K.
* $10, Sticker Mule
* $10, Kenneth N.
* $10, Goran A.
* $10, Neal Technical Services
* $7.92 (3rd donation), Kevin D.
* $6.6 (2nd donation), Stoyan
* $6.6 (2nd donation), Siniša M.
* $6.6 (2nd donation), Sven B.
* $6.6 (2nd donation), Maurice P.
* $6.6 (2nd donation), Marcin Skiba aka “marcinski”
* $6.6 (2nd donation), Michael Klitschka
* $6.6, Manolis aka “P.“
* $6.6, Carlos A. H.
* $6.6, Krzysztof S.
* $6.6, Mark Boadey aka “Drizz“
* $6.6, Lorenzo B.
* $6.6, MF
* $5.12, Marcus W.
* $5 (7th donation), Inga Muste aka “TokRa“
* $5 (5th donation), Michael Gstettenbauer
* $5 (4th donation), Justin Peterson
* $5 (4th donation), Miljenko D.
* $5 (2nd donation), Kelley J.
* $5 (2nd donation), Mark F.
* $5, Performance by Design aka “Autocrosser @ Mint Debian Forums”
* $5, Richard D. E.
* $5, Michael C.
* $5, Cyprus Property aka “Paphos Properties“
* $5, Gregory A. aka “Change Family Provision ACT“
* $5, Matthew E.
* $5, Adauto G. D. C.
* $5, Luís M. B. L.
* $5, Alan T.
* $5, Emil S.
* $5, Алексей Засорин aka “Axel”
* $5, Juan M. O.
* $4 (6th donation), Paul B. aka “Dude”
* $4, John D.
* $3.96 (5th donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
* $3.92, Bojan Kopanja
* $3 (12th donation), Savant B.D.
* $3, Gerrit Pannek aka “Nold“
* $3, Anh Nguyen Tuan aka “tradaonline”
* $3, Bhupendra Kumar Singh aka “B K Singh”
* $2 (5th donation), Web softwares
* $2, StuzzHosting.com
* $2, Andrius M.
* $2, Cristian G.
* $1 (10th donation), Kay Pee Jewelers
* $1, Felipe F. D. L.
* $1, Manoj Devdas Prabhu
* $1, Bård A. G. aka “Bagge”
* $1, Stuart M.

Sponsors:

* $231, R1Soft
* $106, SEOMoves
* $21, Jay P.
* $20, Az Van aka “newW2″
* $20, CEPTOR Datentechnik oHG
* $20, David S.
* $20, Kristian S.
* $20, Scott P.
* $14, Investment Blog
* $13, Unixmen.com
* $12, Tim W.
* $11, Promotional Mouse Mats
* $11, Roman P.
* $10, Advermedia
* $10, Angel M. D.
* $10, Anthony Gallon
* $10, Barry’s Tickets
* $10, Dan Jackson
* $10, Jack H.
* $10, Jeff R.
* $10, Jeramy R.
* $10, JimQ
* $10, Jonathan K.
* $10, Mugs Promotional
* $10, Promotional Gifts
* $10, Real Estate Centers
* $10, Rob S.
* $10, Roland F. Arms
* $10, Website Auditor
* $10, William C. Mitchell aka “onewing”
* $10, worldsrealestate.net
* $9, Promotional Items
* $8, Attila Vecsei
* $8, Mahendra T.
* $8, Printed Clothing
* $7, Jesse Burroughs aka “JpBя”
* $7, Martin S.
* $7, Personalised Clothing
* $7, Promotional Mug
* $6, Clothing Promotional
* $6, Martin Senftleben aka “DrMartinus“
* $5, Dimitris Christidis
* $5, Don Brubaker
* $5, Flemming D. Joergensen aka “DcyMatrix“
* $5, Gregory T.
* $5, Jeffrey S.
* $5, Joe H. aka “JoeFootball”
* $5, Kevin D.
* $5, Lee K.
* $5, Matthew N.
* $5, Matthew Y.
* $5, Printed Clothing
* $5, Printed Mug
* $5, Private Jets Charter
* $5, Promotional Gifts
* $5, Scott Y.
* $5, Sohier C.
* $5, Steve Burdine aka “Highfructose327“
* $5, Steve Burdine aka “Highfructose327“
* $5, Thomas Howson
* $5, Thomas Nehrlich
* $5, Torstein Sornes aka “todda7″
* $5, Turin
* $4, Baby shower favors
* $4, Chile travel
* $4, Shannon D.
* $3, CreationsByRichie – Animated Banners & Graphical Designs
* $3, Josef K.
* $3, Sebastian Posch
* $3, Stephen Aghaulor
* $2, Caravan Awnings
* $2, Caravan Awnings
* $2, Douglas T.
* $2, Manuel V.
* $2, SPAC Information and News
* $2, VeganQuébec
* $1.5, Daniel A.
* $1.5, Farbyte
* $1, Недвижимость на Кипре
* $1, недвижимость в греции
* $1, Cyprus Resale
* $1, Cyprus Weather
* $1, Ethoseo Internet Marketing Bellingham, WA
* $1, External Hard Drive Reviews
* $1, Frank S.
* $1, giochi gratis
* $1, Greg Flynn
* $1, iPad News
* $1, John Michael L.
* $1, Online Pokerraum aka “donegon“
* $1, Poker Fieber
* $1, Pokerschule
* $1, Property In Greece
* $1, redfoa
* $1, redfoa
* $1, Renelou Esperanzate
* $1, Seth Forrestier
* $1, surfinpeace.co.uk
* $1, very-clever.com
* $0.5, Simple and Powerful music player for Linux
* $0.5, Simple and Powerful music player for Linux
* $0.5, Хакасия real-time

Money raised in February:

* Donations: $3200.84 (155 donors)
* Sponsors: $943.5 (102 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

* Linux Mint 10 Julia: 48.77%
* Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 26.43%
* Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 8.15%
* Linux Mint 8 Helena: 6.35%
* LMDE: 6.11%
* Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.02%
* Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 1.38%
* Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 0.85%

Web Stats:

* Visits: 2,589,386
* Unique views: 3,297,535
* Pageviews: 4,222,245
* Page impressions: 2,310,828
* Search queries: 7,422,610
* Forum users: 44,216
* Forum posts: 373,257

Rankings:

* Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1671 (2nd)
* Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.4% (2nd)
* Alexa (website ranking): 15,400th

Events:

* Ikey Doherty joined full-time paid Linux Mint staff
* Linux Mint 10 KDE RC was released
* Linux Mint 10 LXDE RC was released
* Linux Mint 11′s codename was chosen: “Katya”
* Linux Mint signed a partnership with eUKhost
* Linux Mint 10 KDE was released
* mintCast released two podcast episodes: #52 and #53

Summary:

* We had three releases in February, but it’s within the team and the project that things changed a lot. We now have Ikey Doherty working full time for us, and we signed a very important partnership with eUKhost.
* The partnership allowed us to migrate our forums and community website to a 16GB RAM server. We’re planning to migrate the main website this week. These migrations make our websites more responsive and more reliable, and they also free other servers for development and testing.
* Ikey focused on triaging the bugs on Launchpad and reduced the number of “new” bugs from 450 to 0. Bugs will be processed on a daily basis to keep this number as low as possible and behind the triaging, we’ll implement and release fixes often as well to reduce the number of overall “open” bugs.
* Development is ongoing on Linux Mint 11, and an upcoming switch to LMDE for the Fluxbox edition.
* Our monthly stats (donations, sponsorships, traffic, advertising) seem low when compared to other months. Considering February comes with only 28 days and looking at our average daily income, we’re actually up 2.2% and doing better than ever before. Once more we’re happy to report that last month was our best month since the foundation of the project.

[mooseman]

What about xfce 10?

[AlbertP]

The developer of Mint XFCE has an ill wife and has had a car accident, so be patient.
See also: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=59450