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) – http://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) –  http://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) – http://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) – http://www.hostcolor.com/vps
• $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 – http://www.unixmen.com/
• $7, Jesse Burroughs (JpBя – USA)
• $7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) – http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ppapasai/
• $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) – http://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) – http://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:

• Linux Mint 7 Gloria was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=847
• Linux Mint 7 Gloria RC1 was released: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=796
  
• mintCast released 3 episodes of their podcast: http://mintcast.org/

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.