Sponsors update - May 2025
Published on May 23, 2025 by Ruth Cheesley
Hello awesome supporters of Mautic!
What a whirlwind spring it's been here in the Mautic project! We've had a bunch of exciting news updates over the last months so I'll summarise them here.
Releases
Since I last wrote we've released Mautic 6.0 and 6.0.1. We also released 5.2.3 (security release), 5.2.4 and 5.2.5.
This has been a phenomenal effort from the community with a massive amount of work being put into getting new features released, bugs fixed, and updating our underlying dependencies to ensure we're providing secure, supported software.
If you're running Mautic 4 and you don't currently have an Extended Long Term Support subscription, you're vulnerable to the three issues we patched in February, fixes for which are now published for ELTS subscribers:
Please ensure you either update to Mautic 5 or purchase an ELTS subscription as soon as possible to avoid running unsupported software which puts your customer data at risk. Don't forget that members of Mautic receive a tiered discount on every ELTS subscription purchased.
Finances
We continue to make headway when it comes to financial stability, and since our new website launched we're seeing higher than ever uptake on our Mautic Trials.
This month we also received our first substantial commission from Trial users who have converted into paying customers for the hosted service, provided by Dropsolid. We've also seen several customers who went directly to paying for the hosted service, preferring not to take up a trial first.
The great thing about these deals is that they bring 40% of the revenue for the first year directly back to the Mautic project, which decays down over the following years. So it's a cumulative revenue stream that we're building in partners with our provider Dropsolid, helping to diversify our income streams.
We're continuing to see new members signing up to support Mautic which has been wonderful - I've had some lovely conversations with organisations who are transforming their marketing with Mautic and it's such an inspiration to hear the amazing things Mautic is enabling people to do all over the world.
We are lagging behind somewhat when it comes to expected income, mainly due to the ELTS program and membership under-performing compared to our expectations, so we're putting more work into these areas.
Growing the team
This month we've also been trialling a part-time contractor working as an executive assistant, Ioana Milea, who is supporting me with administrative tasks two hours a day to help free up my time, which has been extremely beneficial. Ioana is managing my calendar and inbox, helping to respond to emails on my behalf and also getting involved with organising workflows more efficiently. You can reach out to her at [email protected] or find her on Slack.
We've also hired our first team member (you'll remember I mentioned this last time that we were recruiting) in Barsha Devi, who joins us as a Sales and Marketing Assistant. She started working for Mautic at the beginning of May and is just working through her onboarding, you'll start to see her more active in the community in the coming weeks, and also more marketing activity coming from Mautic focused on developing awareness of our product.
None of this would be possible without your support, so thank you for continuing to support Mautic!
Grant funding
The Campaign Library initiative continues to make strong progress as we come into the final sprints - we're looking for testers to help with reviewing and testing the PR before it's merged into Mautic 7 - please reach out to our Project Manager [email protected] if you'd like to help with this. Read more about the project and keep up to date with the weekly blogs in the Campaign Library Assembly.
We also heard that we were shortlisted as a finalist for the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund earlier this month, which is a program offered by GitHub to help open source projects like Mautic to improve their security through training, resources and funding. It provides two places for members of our Core Team on a three-week training program, and a grant of $10,000. We should know by the end of the month if we've been selected, we're keeping our fingers crossed!
We have submitted a project for NLNet's Q1 round to complete phase two of the Campaign Library project, and we're waiting to hear back if we're successful - it can take up to 12 weeks so it will be a little while before we hear whether we're successful or not.
New Working Groups
Two areas of Mautic which had been quite neglected have recently been revived, the Docker Working Group and the WordPress Plugin. Both are areas of Mautic which we have a high number of users but no active maintainers, which meant we were falling behind both in terms of keeping up to date with bug fixes and releases, and of course adding new features and improvements. Last month I put out a call for maintainers for both.
I'm delighted to say that Renato Castro has stepped up to lead the Docker Working Group and several people are training up as maintainers, and Johnny McKinney from Dog Byte Marketing is stepping up to lead development on the WordPress plugin. A big thanks to everyone for answering the call for maintainers!
We also published our AI Manifesto this week and the AI Working Group has recently started up headed by Norman Pracht, if you're interested in how we enable AI within Mautic and develop features, please join and have your voice heard!
That's it from me, have a great month ahead!