Urgent call for community support to secure Mautic's financial future

https://mautic.org/blog/urgent-call-for-community-support-to-secure-mautics-financial-future/

by sdoering • 5 months ago

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sdoering• 5 months ago

Disclosure: I'm on the Mautic leadership team — I lead the marketing team and recently joined the Council (our governance board).

Happy to answer any questions about the situation. A few things worth noting:

Our finances are fully transparent: monthly reports are public via Open Collective and our Open Startup Reports. The shortfall came from a small number of key members re-budgeting, not from declining usage. Mautic's install base is actually growing. We've already cut costs significantly (40% reduction in Project Lead hours, cancelled a developer hire, suspended events). The $140K essential budget covers codebase management, infrastructure, and trademark protection.

The broader question of how open-source projects that serve as critical infrastructure can sustain themselves financially is something I think about a lot. We're trying to be transparent about navigating it in real time.

Urgent call for community support to secure Mautic's financial future

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