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) - [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) - [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) - [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) - [www.hostcolor.com]
- $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 - [www.unixmen.com]
- $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя - USA)
- $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) - [www.andrew.cmu.edu]
- $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) - [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) - [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:
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.
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