Ubuntu MATE August 2017 supporters

Many thanks to everyone who invested in the Ubuntu MATE project this month. You have been generous as always and ensured that we can meet all the costs associated with running the Ubuntu MATE project. As usual we’ve been able to fund some developers to work on Ubuntu MATE and MATE Desktop projects.

How will this months crowd funding be spent?

This months crowd funding will be used to pay for:

• All Ubuntu MATE Content Delivery Network, Web Application Firewall and email charges.
• Paid $2538.8 (taking into account currency variations) to Open Source developers for working on Ubuntu MATE and MATE Desktop projects.
• This brings Ubuntu MATEs total funding to Open Source projects and developers to approximately $26347.06 (taking into account currency variations).

Thank you!

Project Sponsorship

A huge thank you to everyone at Bytemark for sponsoring Ubuntu MATE and MATE Desktop. Bytemark are providing hosting and covering all server/bandwidth costs for both projects. This sponsorship means nearly all of the Ubuntu MATE crowd funding can be directed towards funding development projects. :-D

Supporting Open Source

Ubuntu MATE is comprised of many Open Source projects, we recognise that. Each month Ubuntu MATE has surplus funds we will make contributions to Open Source projects, or developers working on projects, that Ubuntu MATE directly benefits from.

This month Ubuntu MATE has paid several Open Source developers to work on Ubuntu MATE or MATE Desktop projects. €1400 $1668.8

• Mike Gabriel - €250 - For packaging Caja Rename for Debian and Ubuntu.
• Wolfgang Ulbrich - €200 - For developing and bug fixing MATE Desktop.
• Pablo Baricela González - €200 - For developing and bug fixing MATE Desktop.
• Vlad Orlov - $200 - For developing and bug fixing MATE Desktop.
• Simon Quigley - $200 - For SRU’ing several GTK fixes to supported Ubuntu releases.
• Sefan Ric - €200 For adding Favourites to Brisk Menu.
• Simon Quigley - $100 - For SRU’ing several GVFS fixes to Ubuntu 16.04.
• Johnny Dennis - $150 - For working on tomxplayer for the Raspberry Pi.
• Simon Quigley - $200 - For migratinggdebi to PolicyKit.
• Wolfgang Ulbrich - €350 - For fixing and improving the default Ubuntu MATE themes.

Thank you to everyone who has invested in Ubuntu MATE, you are really making a difference to the development of Ubuntu MATE and the MATE Desktop.

Please Invest

We have setup a number of payment options that should hopefully suit everyone. If you haven’t already, be brilliant, help grow our community.

Patrons

Many thanks to the following people for becoming Ubuntu MATE patrons who collectively invested $2040.51 this month.

Patreon Perks

These Patron have opted for some perks.

The following Patrons contribute $10, or more, every month.

The following Patrons also contribute every month.

David Hollings, Blake Jones, Silas Wulff, Dirk Eisenacher, Jupiter Broadcasting, Ivan Pejić, Sergio Rivera, Michael Mykolyshyn, Adrian Evans, Ricardo Gerena, Peter Mergaerts, ZoRaS, Jarrod Ryan Worlitz, Brent Kincer, Michael White, Ed Tiller, veritanuda, B Kirsch, Nathan Tehrani, Dow Hurst, Sam McGlynn, Stephen Kucksdorf, Enjayembee, Phil Clifford, Johannes, David Laczko, Susan, Winfried Plappert, Colin Taylor, Philip Espi, Scott Cowan, Matt, Joshua, Pablo, Evan Gass, Nathan Lee, The Atomic Ass, Carlo Vitolo, Jim Maguire, Sergey Amitonov, Donald R Baun, Johan Westin, Ron Ridley, David Potter, Jason Monroe, Ewan Carr, Michael Jean, Jason A. Lewis, Shannon Cobb, Jeff Hallam, Jeff Blake, Simon Quigley, Meat Damage, Anthony Weathers, Volker Zaeh, Sam Douglas, Michael K Lenox, Sungkeun Cho, Joe Prostko, Martin Becker, Joseph Spurlock, Seiji Amasawa, David DeGroff, Alexander Karelas, Spencer Heywood, Ryan Yates, matt, Dave Jones, Aybar C Acar, Mike G, K.G. Orphanides, Nathan, dastrike, Andras Nemeshanyi, darkinmyeyes, Tapio Hansson, Reid Best, Peter Pfeiffer, Trooper_Ish, m1k3, Patrik Nilsson, Cato Gaustad, Paul Howarth, gnusd, Geoff Grogan, Bevan Thomas, Anthony Bosio, Eduardo Sanchez, Steve E., Martin S, Bård Aase, Tyler, Thomas Kyanko, Andrew Heath, Spencer Carter (h82or8), Joao Atienza, Douglas Hitchcock, Jim and Rachel Trigg, Yevgeniy Kuksenko, Gal Buki, Will Binns-Smith, Mats-Jørund Fiskum, John Colagioia, Beau Breon, Paul Keeton, Tyler Dickieson, Jacob, Bill Thornton, Richard Underwood, Chris Monachino, Vladimir Alexandroff, NuclearBandAid, Sebastiaan Samyn, Chris Giltnane, Dominique Pizzie, Tobias Lekare, Michael Short, Jay Dobson, Ryan Grange, chuck, Enthernal, Tim Howes, Bart Nijs, wade L, Felix Schymura, Christian Bartsch, Josh Kosloski, Chris Mandeville, Alexandru Nedel, Joe cartouche, Steven, Simon Bell, Daniel Kuang, Paulo Malvar, Russell Cantwell, Nuno M. Salgueiro, tekgeek, Dennis Shimer, Seth McCombs, Ludvig Nybogård, Brian Hesdorfer, Dirk Hackenberg, Robert Orzanna, Michael Burchfield, Harry Myhre, Max Kristen, Cory Wright, Thomas Waters, David Lachut, Nikos Neosvoskos, Specops872, Michael Braem, Momo Salo, john, Graham Moss, David Southard, Grigory Usenko, lephio, Patrick L Archibald, Mandy Tonks, Robert Winkler, Vitor, Yoni Fogel, tuxayo, Sam, BobAllen55, Andrew Aadland, Fuzzy, Eric, Tekmad, Ali Al Saif, Jordan Brown, Andreas warnaar, Timo Peltola, Eric Rakestraw, Alin Hanghiuc, Rob Cutmore, RT Vance,

The Unlucky Patron!

Darrell Vermilion is a good sport! They have chosen to be the Ubuntu MATE unlucky Patron, just so they can see their name in flashing lights.

Thank you to all 282 of you who invested in Ubuntu MATE via PayPal this month!

• A total of $1665.11 was donated via PayPal, which after processing fees amounted to $1522.42, of which $1093.41 was received as Download Tips and $139.4 was received from recurring payments.
• A total of €221.0 was donated via PayPal, which after processing fees amounted to €206.5, of which €20.33 was received from recurring payments.
• A total of £102.0 was donated via PayPal, which after processing fees amounted to £95.93, of which £9.94 was received from recurring payments.
• A total of 0.00746642 BTC was donated.