Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

• $163, Adnan Z. (Germany)
• $120, Nicolas B. (Germany)
• $102, James Marsh (Australia) – http://www.engadinecycles.com.au/
• $100, Micah Gravel aka “micahman” (USA)
• $74 (2nd donation), David F. (Ireland)
• $74, Badr R. (France)
• $74, Matthias R. (France)
• $60, Jim Duffield aka “sapperk9” (Australia)
• $50, Andreas Rumpenhorst (Germany)
• $50, James Donaldson (USA)
• $50, Robert D. (United Kingdom)
• $50, William G. (USA)
• $50, Stefano Candotti aka “Stevewonder” (Italy)
• $50, Eric Pate (USA) – http://www.carolinagreenpc.com
• $50, Billy S. (USA)
• $50, Andre D. (USA)
• $44 (2nd donation), Wolfgang P. (Austria)
• $44, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
• $37, Thomas G. (Germany)
• $37, Bernhard M. (Germany)
• $30, Mark O’D. (World)
• $30, David C. (USA)
• $28, Pau Carre Cardona (Spain)
• $27, Jeffrey K. (USA)
• $25, Gavin Engel (USA)
• $25, Ed D. (USA)
• $25, Clifton Rhodes (USA)
• $25, Sudheer S. (United Kingdom)
• $25, Paul Bary (USA)
• $20 (2nd donation), Dan B. (USA)
• $20, Dalibor Saula (Australia)
• $20, Amiel H. (Australia)
• $20, Sven S. (Australia)
• $20, David Brown (Canada)
• $20, Jonathan P. (USA)
• $20, Winston G. (USA)
• $16, John B. (United Kingdom)
• $15, Matthew G. (USA)
• $15, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
• $15, Paul George (United Kingdom) – http://www.paulgeorge.me
• $14, Patrick Baumann (Germany)
• $14, Iain G. (United Kingdom)
• $14, L G DE L. (Netherlands)
• $14, Charl P. (Netherlands)
• $14, Claudio Gabriele N. (Italy)
• $14, Bruno M. (Italy)
• $14, Joseph W. (United Kingdom)
• $14, Gunter D. (Austria)
• $13.13, Mac C. (USA)
• $11, Mongolisch-Deutsch.de aka “rmbw” (Germany) – http://www.mongolisch-deutsch.de
• $10 (2nd donation), Richard G. (USA)
• $10, Henry W. (USA)
• $10, Dmitry O. (Russia)
• $10, Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel” (Canada)
• $10, Kevin M. (USA)
• $10, Tom Perry (United Kingdom) – http://twitter.com/tomp83
• $10, Ralph N. (USA)
• $10, Bob H. (Australia)
• $10, Christopher G. (USA)
• $10, Anthony N. (United Kingdom)
• $10, Steinar M. (Norway)
• $10, Donald D’A. (USA)
• $10, MuddBuddha (USA) – http://muddbuddha.com
• $10, John P. (Australia)
• $10, Marcel P. (Canada)
• $10, Chaitanya K aka “thegoodmelon” (India)
• $10, Krzysztof J. (USA)
• $10, Gabriel S. (World)
• $7, Geoffroy M. (Canada)
• $7, Marcus Wikstrom aka “mece” (Finland) – http://twitter.com/mece66
• $5 (2nd donation), Matthew O. (Ireland)
• $5, Malcolm B. (USA)
• $5, Francesco Coiro (Italy)
• $5, Apollo V. Melo aka “teflashfire” (USA) – http://militarylinuxusers.blogspot.com
• $5, Doug Berch (USA) – http://dougberch.com
• $5, Venkatesh B. (United Kingdom)
• $5, Helen J. (United Kingdom)
• $5, Peter Hope-Tindall aka “hopetindall” (Canada)
• $5, Brandon P. (USA)
• $4, Johan T. (Sweden)
• $2, Remy van Elst (Netherlands) – http://relst.nl/
• $2, PartEase (USA) – http://www.partease.com
• $1, Viktor Semenovskiy (Russia) – http://ubuntunnru.blogspot.com/
• $1, Pierre G. (Belgium)

Sponsors:

• $310, R1Soft – http://www.r1soft.com/tools/linux-hot-copy/?ls=linuxmint
• $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)
• $15, Russ W.
• $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
• $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, 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 Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) – http://jasiulewicz.pl
• $1, Erin G.
• $1, Greg Flynn (South Africa)
• $1, Liquidvps.net – http://www.liquidvps.net
  
• $0.5, Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap – Netherlands)
• $0.5, Nottingham web design (UK) – http://www.drawmyattention.co.uk/

Money raised in August:

* Donations: $2162.13 (85 donors)
* Sponsors: $775.5 (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: 75% (+7%)
  
• Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 15% (-5%)
  
• Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 7% (-1%)
  
• Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 3% (-1%)
  

Web Stats:

• Visits: 1,874,462 (+12%)
  
• Pageviews: 3,341,385 (+10%)
• Page impressions: 1,381,550
• Search queries: 4,131,663
  
• Forum users:20,272
• Forum posts:175,325

Rankings:

• Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1279 (3rd)
• Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.2% (2nd)
• Alexa (website ranking): 28,272nd

Events:

• Linux Mint 7 Gloria KDE was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=986
  
• mintCast released 5 episodes of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/

Summary:

• August 2009 was the (6th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.
• The overall income is up 24%.
• Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.
• The community support is outstanding: 85 people donated last month for a total of $2162 and our sponsors raised $775.