Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

• $200, Terry Mansfield aka “tmansfield” (USA)
• $140, Hans G. (Germany)
• $71, Alfred A. (Germany)
• $60, Kitchener-Waterloo LUG (Canada) – http://www.kwlug.org
• $57, Philip D. aka “phd7” (Ireland)
• $50 (3rd donation), Mike G. aka “subslug” (USA)
• $50 (2nd donation), Jonathan B H. (USA)
• $50, Digital Linx Hosting (Canada) – http://vpsnoc.com
• $50, Richard H. (USA)
• $50, Louis P. aka “BikeLouP” (USA)
• $50, Stephen B. (USA)
• $50, James J. (USA)
• $50, Nathan B. (USA)
• $40, Pete Molina aka “pmolina” (USA)
• $40, Rod McLaren aka “Ambertone” (Australia) – http://www.ambertone.com.au
• $35, Andrew M. (Australia)
• $35, Andreas S. (Germany)
• $35, Marcus Norrgard (Finland) – http://www.hanken.fi/staff/manorrga
• $30, James P. (United Kingdom)
• $30, Bill R. (USA)
• $28 (3rd donation), Marco R. (Italy)
• $28, Mark R. (United Kingdom)
• $28, Frank Schmidt (Germany)
• $28, Lee B. (United Kingdom)
• $28, Philippe Camus (France)
• $28, Manuel F. (Portugal)
• $28, Sven B. (Sweden)
• $25, Aleksander S. (Norway)
• $25, Peter B. (Australia)
• $25, Brad Little aka “thelynx” (United Arab Emirates)
• $25, Norman H. (USA)
• $25, Tony R. aka “tonyric” (USA) – http://www.ournuthut.net
• $25, Jens K. (Germany)
• $25, Happy Nerds Workshop (USA)
• $25, Glenn W. (Canada)
• $25, Steve T. (Canada)
• $21 (2nd donation), Antonio Gemelli aka “Antowen” (Italy)
• $21, Francisco C. C. (Spain)
• $21, Jose Luis S. M. (Sweden)
• $21, Michael Krusch aka “MAD” (Germany)
• $21, Hugh Crooke (United Kingdom)
• $20, Edward H. (USA)
• $20, Ludovic G. aka “Lewdsquirrel” (Canada)
• $20, Sergio T. (USA)
• $20, Jene W. (USA)
• $20, David T. (USA)
• $20, Bernardo Dias (Brazil)
• $20, Peter C. (United Kingdom)
• $20, Anthony S. (USA)
• $20, Danielle S. (USA)
• $20, David Tomlin (USA)
• $20, Terry D. (Australia)
• $20, Richard L. (United Kingdom)
• $20, Anthony D. (United Kingdom)
• $20, Mark E. aka “engram” (USA)
• $20, Barry W. (USA)
• $20, Samuel L. (USA)
• $20, Anthony B. (USA)
• $20, Beom K. (Australia)
• $15, Darren K. (United Kingdom)
• $15, Jacques St-O. (Canada)
• $15, Darryl S. (USA)
• $15, Slavoljub M. (Norway)
• $15, Tobias S. (Germany)
• $14, David Holstein (United Kingdom) – http://www.davyhulme.net
• $14, Kevin Dermott (United Kingdom)
• $14, Thomas S. (Austria)
• $14, Michel A. (France)
• $14, Antonis M. (Greece)
• $14, Uwe M. (Germany)
• $14, Emil Pavlov aka “emil_pavlov” (Bulgaria)
• $14, Frank Dominik L. (Germany)
• $10, D.Snyder aka “capt” (USA)
• $10, Michael N. (USA)
• $10, Salim Farah aka “Verix” (USA)
• $10, Trey H. aka “Ubuntaur” (USA)
• $10, Barron R. (USA)
• $10, Alexander G. (USA)
• $10, Paul V. (Canada)
• $10, Apollo V. Melo aka “teflashfire” (USA) – http://militarylinuxusers.blogspot.com
• $10, David E. (USA)
• $10, Marcus Hui (USA) – http://marcushui.blog.co.uk
• $10, Shofi A. (United Kingdom)
• $10, George R. aka “Az4x4” (USA)
• $10, Fyodor K. (Denmark)
• $10, Desmond W. (USA)
• $7, Rienk D. (Netherlands)
• $7, Roberto T. (Italy)
• $7, Alessio C. (Italy)
• $7, Paulo Bartolomeu aka “bartmanpt” (Portugal) – http://pt.linkedin.com/in/paulobartolomeu
• $7, Michael Klitschka (Germany)
• $5, Thomas B. (USA)
• $5, Donald McL. (USA)
• $5, Eric W T. (USA)
• $5, Dennis B. (Australia)
• $5, Savant B.D. (USA) – http://www.allyourprices.com
• $5, Matt G. (USA)
• $5, Muhammad B. (Indonesia)
• $4, Jackie R. (USA)
• $3, Leo Ryan (Philippines) – http://websitesvalue.net
• $3, Salvatore D. (Italy)
• $2, Robert M. (Austria)
• $2, Dominique Lemieux (Canada)
• $1, Sylvestre Burgos aka “sylvestre” (France) – http://burgos.sourceforge.net
• $1, Stefan B. (Germany)
• $1, Rafal Kudlinski (Poland)
• $1, Rovshan P. (Azerbaijan)
• $1, Timothy G. (USA)
• $1, Michael Falk (Germany) – http://wi.uni-giessen.de

Sponsors:

• $231, R1Soft (USA) – http://www.r1soft.com/tools/linux-hot-copy/?ls=linuxmint
• $88, Emilio A S.
• $75, John Ritchie aka “Aging Technogeek” (USA)
• $45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) – http://www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com/
• $25, American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) – http://www.americanbroadbandservice.com/
• $22, TOPIMMOBILIEN aka “Tim” – http://www.immobilien-es.com/
• $20, Scott P. (USA)
• $20, Az Van aka “newW2” (USA)
• $16, Dimitris C. (Greece)
• $15, Luis Cintron (USA)
• $12, Tim W. (USA)
• $11, cheap vps hosting – http://www.neosurge.com/
• $11, Gustav Holm aka “Gustav” (Sweden) – http://gustavholm.com/
• $10, worldsrealestate.net – http://www.worldsrealestate.net
• $10, Rechtsberatung, Steuerberatung, Internetrecht (Tim) aka “Tim” – http://www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de/
• $10, Stitz Computers, LLC (USA) – http://stitzcomputers.com/
• $10, Barry’s Tickets (USA) – http://www.barrystickets.com
• $10, Anthony Gallon (New Zealand)
• $10, Brandon P.
• $10, advermedia.info – http://www.advermedia.info
• $10, Angel M. D.
• $10, Jack H. – http://www.dlxcompany.com
• $8, Attila Vecsei (Finland) – http://www.vecsei.net
• $7, Jesse Burroughs aka “JpBя” (USA)
• $7, Unixmen – http://www.unixmen.com/
• $6, Kenneth E.
• $5, Stuart C.
• $5, David Simmons (USA)
• $5, Linuxmint-FR.org (France) – http://www.linuxmint-fr.org
• $5, Sohier C.
• $5, Christopher D.
• $5, Contact lenses (Ireland) – http://www.eye-care-4u.com
• $5, J.A. Sin aka “Futari” (Spain)
• $4, Chile travel (Chile) – http://www.letsgochile.com
• $4, Ian E. aka “EchoLynx ” (USA)
• $2, Douglas T.
• $2, NVISN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING (USA) – http://www.nvisn.com/
• $2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)
• $2, Ryan Lewon aka “vt102” – http://vt102.com
• $1, Erin G.
• $1, Pokerschule – http://pokerschulen.com
• $1, Недвижимость на Кипре (Cyprus) – http://www.cyprusresaleproperties.ru
• $1, LinBoo.com – http://linboo.com/linux/mint.html
• $1, Dan Jackson aka “DanJ” (United Kingdom)
• $1, very-clever.com – http://www.very-clever.com/
• $1, Cyprus Weather (Cyprus) – http://www.mycyprusweather.com
• $1, Kevin H.
• $1, Renelou Esperanzate (Philippines)
• $1, Prasad.S.R (India) – http://saysprasad.wordpress.com/
• $1, Surf in Peace (United Kingdom) – http://www.surfinpeace.co.uk/
• $1, Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) – http://jasiulewicz.pl/
• $1, Alex Smith (United Kingdom) – http://alexsmith.im
• $1, Daryl J.
• $1, Frank S.
• $1, Greg Flynn (South Africa)

Money raised in February:

* Donations: $2518 (110 donors)
* Sponsors: $777 (56 sponsors)

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

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

• Linux Mint 8 Helena: 58% (+6%)
  
• Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 30% (-7%)
  
• Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 6% (-0%)
  
• Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 3% (-0%)
  
• Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2% (-0%)
  

Web Stats:

• Visits: 2,439,390 (+2%)
• Unique views: 3,317,827 (+3%)
  
• Pageviews: 4,330,486 (+3%)
• Page impressions: 1,805,045
• Search queries: 5,470,848
• Forum users: 28,078
• Forum posts: 237,158
  

Rankings:

• Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1595 (3rd)
• Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.6% (2nd)
  
• Alexa (website ranking): 18,142

Events:

• Linux Mint 8 KDE was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1265
• Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1271
• Linux Mint 8 KDE64 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1275
• mintCast released 2 episodes of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/

Summary:

• The overall income is up again, by 3% in February. This is particularly good considering there were only 28 days that month as opposed to 31 the month before.
• Donations decreased. From $4,000 in December they’re down to $2,500 in February.
• February was a very busy month for the team. 3 stable releases were out.
• Although the most important Distrowatch indicator is down (traffic share: 4.6%), the distribution started to get more coverage in the press and in the media.
• Development started on Linux Mint 9.
• March should see the releases of the Xfce and LXDE editions.