Giving Tuesday: Mautic 'backs their stack' to support the open source projects they depend on

Photo of hands holding coins with a piece of paper which has 'make a change' written on it.

Giving Tuesday is a call to action for all of us to stop, and think about how and what we can give to make the world a better place.

For some that might mean helping a neighbour in need, or supporting a charity that matters to you. For others it might mean giving something back to the open source projects that you use on a daily basis, whether that’s by financially supporting the projects, or by giving your time and expertise to contribute in more practical ways.

Today the Mautic project is announcing our intention to financially support the top 10 projects - prioritised by the community - which we depend on to keep our community and product running. We have allocated $2,000 in our budget this year as a starting point for the ‘Back your Stack’ project.

As an open source project, we depend on many other open source projects, some large and some small. We want to play a small part in helping those projects to continue being sustainable. Together we all grow stronger.

For the next two weeks, we have a form which community members can use to prioritise the projects that they would like us to start funding. The top 10 voted projects will receive $200 over the next year from Mautic through GitHub Sponsors or Open Collective.

Share your priorities

We appreciate that $200 per project is not much in the grand scheme of things, but it is a start. Our budget allocation this year represents 4% of our annual budget, and we would love to raise this to closer to 10% in the future as we become more financially stable ourselves. We hope that as our project continues to grow and thrive, the amount we can make available - and therefore the number of projects we can support - will increase.

If you would like to support some or all of these projects on a personal basis or from your company (and we really encourage you to do this, if you are able!), please find the full list of projects we know to be seeking funding below:

Name of project	How it is used in Mautic	Packages used	Donation channels
Mautic	Our core product	mautic/core	https://github.com/sponsors/mautic https://opencollective.com/mautic
Babel	Used in the GrapesJS plugin to make sure our JavaScript is compatible with a wide range of browsers	Cli, core, plugin-proposal-class-properties, plugin-transform-runtime, preset-flow, babel-eslint	https://opencollective.com/babel https://github.com/sponsors/babel https://gitcoin.co/grants/2906/babel-compiler-for-next-generation-javascript
Clue	Used by the Sparkpost SDK.	stream-filter	https://clue.engineering/support https://github.com/sponsors/clue
Composer	Used in the installation process and in the Mautic Marketplace	ca-bundle, installers, package-versions-deprecated, semver, xdebug-handler	https://packagist.com https://github.com/sponsors/composer https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/composer/composer
Doctrine	ORM (object relational mapper) is used to define and manage the “data layer” in Mautic. Integrated into the API and Symfony Forms. DBAL (database abstraction layer) provides drivers to interact with SQL servers although Mautic only supports MySQL/MariaDB. Migrations used to manage changes to the database schema.	ache, common, data-fixtures, dbal, doctrine-bundle, doctrine-fixtures-bundle, doctrine-migrations-bundle, event-manager, inflector, instantiator, lexer, migrations, persistence	https://www.doctrine-project.org/sponsorship.html https://www.patreon.com/phpdoctrine https://tidelift.com
Egulias	Used to validate emails in campaign builder	email-validator	https://github.com/sponsors/egulias
ESLint	Used in the GrapesJS plugin to improve the code quality	eslint	https://github.com/sponsors/eslint https://opencollective.com/eslint https://tidelift.com/funding/github/npm/eslint
FriendsofPHP	Used by developers to ensure that their code meets our code standards	Php-cs-fixer	https://github.com/sponsors/keradus
FriendsofPHP	Used in Doctrine Migrations.	Proxy-manager-lts	https://github.com/sponsors/Ocramius https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/ocramius/proxy-manager
Guzzlehttp	Used in plugins, the integration framework, and core to make HTTP requests to third party servers.	guzzle, promises, psr7	https://github.com/sponsors/GrahamCampbell https://github.com/sponsors/Nyholm
Intervention	Used in El Finder.	image	https://www.paypal.me/interventionphp https://github.com/sponsors/Intervention
JMS	Used to define fields of Doctrine entities that are exposed through the API	serializer, serializer-bundle	https://github.com/sponsors/goetas
Joomla	Used by the InputHelper to sanitize user input.	Filter, string	https://community.joomla.org/sponsorship-campaigns.html https://github.com/sponsors/joomla
Laminas	Used by Friends of Symfony components.	laminas-code	https://funding.communitybridge.org/projects/laminas-project
League	Used by El Finder to manage images on the filesystem.	Flysystem, mime-type-detection	https://offset.earth/frankdejonge https://github.com/sponsors/frankdejonge https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/league/flysystem
Maennchen	Used by components to export reports as XLS.	zipstream-php	https://opencollective.com/zipstream
Matomo	Used to parse and identify devices from browsers’ user agents.	device-detector	https://opencollective.com/matomo-analytics https://patreon.com/matomo https://ko-fi.com/matomo https://liberapay.com/Matomo https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=RPL23NJURMTFA
Mocha	Used in the Zapier integration	mochajs	https://opencollective.com/mochajs
Monolog	Used for application logging.	monolog	https://github.com/sponsors/Seldaek https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/monolog/monolog
Myclabs	Used by Zipstream for exporting reports to XLS files.	Deep-copy, php-enum	https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/myclabs/deep-copy https://github.com/sponsors/mnapoli https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/myclabs/php-enum
Parcel	Used in the GrapesJS plugin to compile and test the source code	parcel	https://opencollective.com/parcel
PHPseclib	Used by RabbitMQ components which is an option for processing some requests via the RabbitMQ messenger service.	phpseclib	https://github.com/sponsors/terrafrost https://www.patreon.com/phpseclib https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/phpseclib/phpseclib
PHPSTAN	Used by developers for static analysis of their code to find common coding errors.	phpstan	https://github.com/sponsors/ondrejmirtes https://github.com/sponsors/phpstan https://www.patreon.com/phpstan https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/phpstan/phpstan
PHPUnit	Used by developers to write automated tests.	php-code-coverage, php-file-iterator, php-invoker, php-text-template, php-timer, phpunit	https://github.com/sponsors/sebastianbergmann https://phpunit.de/sponsors.html
Predis	Used in the CacheBundle to support Redis as a caching adaptor.	predis	https://github.com/sponsors/tillkruss
Prettier	Used in the GrapesJS builder to format the source code	prettier	https://opencollective.com/prettier https://tidelift.com/funding/github/npm/prettier
Ramsey	Used to generate UUID strings currently leveraged through monitoring inboxes for email replies.	uuid	https://github.com/sponsors/ramsey https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/ramsey/uuid
Rector	Used by developers to help automatically upgrade code between Symfony versions.	rector	https://github.com/sponsors/tomasvotruba
Sebastian Bergmann	Packages that support other developer tools such as PHP-CS-Fixer and Flysystem.	cli-parser, code-unit, code-unit-reverse-lookup, comparator, complexity, diff, environment, exporter, global-state, lines-of-code, object-enumerator, object-reflector, recursion-context, resource-operations, type, version	https://github.com/sponsors/sebastianbergmann
Studio-42	Used as the file manager for images in the Email and Landing Page builders.	elfinder	https://github.com/sponsors/nao-pon
Symfony	The core framework Mautic is built on.	asset, browser-kit, cache, cache-contracts, config, console, css-selector, debug, dependency-injection, deprecation-contracts, doctrine-bridge, dom-crawler, dotenv, error-handler, event-dispatcher, event-dispatcher-contracts, expression-language, filesystem, finder, flex, form, framework-bundle, http-client, http-client-contracts, http-foundation, http-kernel, inflector, intl, lock, mime, monolog-bridge, monolog-bundle, options-resolver, phpunit-bridge, polyfill-ctype, polyfill-iconv, polyfill-intl-grapheme, polyfill-intl-icu, polyfill-intl-idn, polyfill-intl-normalizer, polyfill-mbstring, polyfill-php70, polyfill-php72, polyfill-php73, polyfill-php74, polyfill-php80, polyfill-php81, process, property-access, routing, security, security-acl, security-bundle, service-contracts, stopwatch, string, swiftmailer-bundle, templating, translation, translation-contracts, twig-bridge, twig-bundle, validator, var-dumper, var-exporter, web-profiler-bundle, yaml	https://symfony.com/sponsor https://github.com/sponsors/fabpot https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/symfony/symfony
Theofidry	Developer tool to allow running Mautic code from the command line.	psysh-bundle	https://github.com/sponsors/theofidry
Theseer	Used by PhpUnit.	tokenizer	https://github.com/sponsors/theseer
Twig	Templating engine used in the application for the UI and Mautic Themes for the templated content for builders.	twig	https://github.com/sponsors/fabpot https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/twig/twig
Voku	Used in transliteration of languages with special characters into English letters.	portable-ascii	https://www.paypal.me/moelleken https://github.com/sponsors/voku https://opencollective.com/portable-ascii https://www.patreon.com/voku https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/voku/portable-ascii
Xdebug	Used by developers to debug code.	xdebug	https://github.com/sponsors/derickr

Useful resources

How to find dependencies seeking funding

If you use Composer, you can use the command

composer fund

to get a list of your dependencies which are looking for funding.

If you have a public repository on GitHub or a dependency file (e.g. package.json, composer.json, *.csproj, packages.config, Gopkg.lock, Gemfile.lock or requirements.txt), you can use backyourstack.com to pull out a list of dependencies - this only shows links to Open Collective projects but the dependencies are all listed, so you can search for alternative ways to fund the projects (e.g. GitHub Sponsors).