{"id":590,"date":"2009-02-02T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-02-02T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:36:15","slug":"monthly-stats-january-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Stats &#8211; January 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donations &amp; Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:<\/p>\n<p>Donors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$139, AvanceIT (UK) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/avanceit.co.uk\">http:\/\/avanceit.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$100, Upinderjit S. (USA)<\/li>\n<li>$100, Geoffrey U. (USA)<\/li>\n<li>$66, Andre B. (Germany)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$66 (4th donation), Theodore T. (UK)<\/li>\n<li>$66, Peter K. (Switzerland)<\/li>\n<li>$60, Richard G. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$50, Steven W. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$50 (2nd donation), Harvey Elliott (UK)<\/li>\n<li>$50, Stephen C. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$25, Sohier C. (Canada)<\/li>\n<li>$25, Kevin S. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$25, James S. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$20, Matthew S. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$20, Brian H. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$20, Richard C. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$20, David V. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$20, Brian B. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$15, Sooren B. (UK)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$13 (5th donation), Frank Bechstein (Germany) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamer-site.de\">http:\/\/www.gamer-site.de<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$13, Ken W. (UK)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$13, Desmond R. (Australia)<\/li>\n<li>$10, Eero T V. (Finland)<\/li>\n<li>$10, Andrew B. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$10, Sevan S. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$10, Alejandro C. C. (Spain)<\/li>\n<li>$7, Tomasz K. (Poland)<\/li>\n<li>$5, John N. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>$4, Sebastien K. (Portugal)<\/li>\n<li>$1, Mark B. (USA)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sponsors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$70, Philippe Lotz (alsaphil &#8211; France)<\/li>\n<li>$50, Linux-Onlineshop (Germany) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-onlineshop.de\/\">http:\/\/www.linux-onlineshop.de<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com\/\">http:\/\/www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$40, Az Van (newW2 &#8211; USA)<\/li>\n<li>$20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim &#8211; Germany) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.immobilien-es.com\/\">http:\/\/www.immobilien-es.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$10, Jim Rogers (USA)<\/li>\n<li>$7, Jesse Burroughs (JpB\u044f &#8211; USA)<\/li>\n<li>$7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/ppapasai\/\">http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/ppapasai\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$5, Dimitris Athanasiou (RHO, Greece) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.gr\/\">http:\/\/www.speedtest.gr<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$5, Vassilis Skoullis (Greece)<\/li>\n<li>$5, linuxmint-fr.org (ludal &#8211; France) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint-fr.org\/\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint-fr.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino \/ prior123 &#8211; Italy) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint-italia.org\/\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint-italia.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$5, Guillermo Enrique Guglietti (Canada) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbancsa.org\/\">http:\/\/www.urbancsa.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$5, Alex P.<\/li>\n<li>$5, Torrent Truth (USA)<\/li>\n<li>$2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)<\/li>\n<li>$1, Lintelligence.de. (d00p &#8211; Germany) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lintelligence.de\/\">http:\/\/www.lintelligence.de<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$1, Linuxmint.de (d00p &#8211; Germany) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.de\/\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.de<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$1, Ian Egland (Echolynx &#8211; USA)<\/li>\n<li>$1, BusinessSale &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webvaluer.org\/\">http:\/\/www.webvaluer.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$1, very-clever.com &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-clever.com\/\">http:\/\/www.very-clever.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$1, Busybits &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.busybits.com\/\">http:\/\/www.busybits.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$1, linboo.com &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linboo.com\/\">http:\/\/www.linboo.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$1, Expert Bookings &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expert-bookings.com\">http:\/\/www.expert-bookings.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$0.5 Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap &#8211; Netherlands)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/ppapasai\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Money raised in January:<\/p>\n<p>* Donations: $1033<br \/>\n* Sponsors: $294.5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/donors.php\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/donors.php<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/sponsors.php\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/sponsors.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>User Stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 11.30%<\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 34.71%<\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 53.98%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Web Stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visits: 1,052,738<\/li>\n<li>Pageviews: 2,052,209<\/li>\n<li>Page impressions:\u00a0902,532<\/li>\n<li>Search queries:\u00a02,111,860<\/li>\n<li>Forum users:\u00a012264<\/li>\n<li>Forum posts:\u00a0118744<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>Rankings:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Distrowatch: 1518 (3rd)<\/li>\n<li>Alexa:\u00a040,959th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Events:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux Mint 6 Felicia x64 RC1 release:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=536\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=536<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint 6 Felicia XFCE RC1 release:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=562\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=562<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint was added to the Linux Distribution Chooser:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegeniestudios.net\/ldc\/\">http:\/\/www.zegeniestudios.net\/ldc\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Felicia Mint tools were backported to Elyssa LTS:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=558\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=558<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MintCast released 2 episodes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintcast.org\">http:\/\/www.mintcast.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New version of mintInstall, 5.3.6:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=545\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=545<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint 7 to be called Gloria:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=543\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=543<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Screencast and Community Repository projects created:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=579\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=579<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The user base seems to grow. The income doesn&#8217;t. This is probably linked to the global financial crisis which affects donors, sponsors and advertisers. A donation campaign could be organized.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>2 new dedicated servers, one in Canada and one in England might soon add to the two servers we already have in Germany.<\/li>\n<li>The number of people still running Daryna is surprisingly high. The number of people running Elyssa is surprisingly low. Two releases are actively maintained, the latest release (currently Linux Mint 6 Felicia) and the latest LTS release (currently Linux Mint 5). Users are encouraged to either follow the latest release and to upgrade twice a year, or to stick to the latest LTS release and to upgrade every 3 years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donations &amp; Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $139, AvanceIT (UK) &#8211; http:\/\/avanceit.co.uk $100, Upinderjit S. (USA) $100, Geoffrey U. (USA) $66, Andre B. (Germany)\u00a0 $66 (4th donation), Theodore T. (UK) $66, Peter K. (Switzerland) $60, Richard G. (USA)\u00a0 $50, Steven W. 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