For annual reports of the MetaBrainz Foundation.
I’m pleased to announce that our annual report for 2013 is available now. If you would like to know some details of what makes MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz tick, about our finances, hosting, machines and community, click the link and read on!
Thanks to Navap for doing the legwork on this report!
I finally completed the 2012 annual report! This year has been busy, so I apologize for finishing it this late.
Our cost per 1M web hits dropped significantly, we finished our first year in the red and we created 1/4 of all of our edits to date in 2012! Go read the report to find out who was the top editor, the top voter and other interesting tidbits about MusicBrainz in 2012.
Thanks to Navap, Nikki and Reosarevok for helping in putting this report together!
I’m pleased to announce that an anonymous company decided to donate a pile of 20 Supermicro servers to us!! I’ve tallied up and estimated a value for all of these servers and it comes to $49,480!
Out of that pile of servers, I’ve built 10 servers that are very close to the servers that we purchased during our fundraiser last year. Two servers are nearly ready for use and a bunch of other servers decorate (read: fill up) my tiny office. Thanks so much to our anonymous donors — you’re going to help us grow over the next couple of years! With the rate at which our traffic is growing, the timing of this donation couldn’t be better!
If anyone wants to send dark chocolate to our donors as a thank you, please do! Just send them to MetaBrainz and I’ll pass them on our friends.
The timing of this donation was especially spot-on since it put us into the black for 2011. With a scant excess revenue (retained earnings) of $4,166.91 on revenues of $239,756.07, we barely made it. Phew. See our financial reports for all of 2011, if you care to get more details!
That closes an exciting year for MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz! We hope to have the annual report published before the month is out.
Thanks for an amazing 2011 everyone!
2010 was a big development year for us with an amazing amount of tangible progress on the Next Generation Schema (NGS). NGS would prove to be our number one task in 2010, with no server releases happening at all because of our focus on NGS.
Early in the year we increased our engineering capacity with Kuno Woudt joining us as a full time developer in February; Oliver Charles moved from a part time position into a full time position in June 2010. Their sole focus for the entire year was to finish NGS, and we got within a few months of finishing it.
We transitioned from Subversion to Git as our version control system in the process of writing NGS. From Nov 2009 to Feb 2010 the MusicBrainz Server codebase went from ~224,000 lines of code down to ~72,000 (the lowest since 2003!). By the end of 2010 we reached ~130,000 lines of code. NGS does a lot more, but with a lot less code. NGS was a much needed cleanup and overhaul of our aging codebase.
Financially we started 2010 off pretty weak, but got an early boost with a $50,000 donation from Richard Jones (one of the founders of last.fm) and later a $40,000 donation from Google. These generous donations allowed us to continue focusing on NGS — thank you Google and Richard Jones!
MetaBrainz took on The Guardian, musiXmatch, and ZeeZee as new data customers in 2010.
Google Summer of Code 2010 resulted in an exciting new addition to our product line – the MusicBrainz Android App. Developed by Jamie McDonald, the Android app allows anyone to carry the MusicBrainz Database around in their pocket wherever they go. It is a very handy app to settle music debates at parties!
Jess Hemerly conducted a study and wrote a paper on MusicBrainz as part of her Master’s program at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Among many other topics, she answered questions such as ‘Why do people contribute?’, ‘What characterizes editors’ participation?’, and ‘What is the role of metadata in music technology?’.
In 2010 the foundation took in $177,740.94 and spent $172,904.94 for a total excess income of $4,836.00.
Income
| Direct Donations | $90,278.89 |
| PayPal Donations | $6,867.99 |
| Consulting | $2,669.75 |
| Live Data Feed Licenses | $52,682.76 |
| CC Data Licenses | $5,100.00 |
| Amazon Associates | $1,299.94 |
| Tagger Affiliates | $18,147.62 |
| CD Baby Affiliate | $12.00 |
| Bank Credits | $0.10 |
| Bank Interest | $681.89 |
| Total Income: | $177,740.94 |
Expenses
| Bank Fees | $995.30 |
| PayPal Fees | $1,263.63 |
| Rent | $2,856.00 |
| Hardware | $5,455.15 |
| Travel | $4,806.26 |
| Internet | $184.56 |
| Development | $109,991.19 |
| Gifts | $458.63 |
| Events | $270.98 |
| Hosting | $16,900.00 |
| Filing Fees | $60.00 |
| Software | $99.00 |
| Entertainment | $331.53 |
| Books | $20.99 |
| Insurance | $2,025.00 |
| Accounting | $1,200.00 |
| Shipping | $87.51 |
| Payroll Taxes | $25,639.39 |
| Advertising | $259.82 |
| Total Expenses: | $172,904.94 |
The Profit & Loss shows:
The balance sheet for the end of 2010 showed the MetaBrainz Foundation with $77,011.94 retained earnings, a net income of $4,836.00, and cash assets totalling $81,847.94.
The following chart shows our overall web traffic to musicbrainz.org for 2006 – 2010:
The blue line represents the overall number of hits to musicbrainz.org and the red line shows how many of the overall hits were web service (API) hits. As in previous years, our web service hits represent about 85% – 90% of our overall traffic. Please note that in September of 2009 we switched to a more accurate method for keeping track of our overall web services hits. Prior to this, the graph shows the sum of the artist/release/track counts, rather than the total web service traffic.
Our traffic grew considerably in the first half of 2010, but then leveled off for the second half of 2010. We don’t know what accounted for this leveling off, but we suspect that the lack of new features for the MusicBrainz server generally decreased interest in the project.
| Top Editors | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | drsaunde | 73982 |
| 2. | brianfreud | 72121 |
| 3. | gswanjord | 58933 |
| 4. | murdos | 54517 |
| 5. | HumHumXX | 43985 |
| 6. | dimpole | 39527 |
| 7. | salo.rock | 38644 |
| 8. | nikki | 37770 |
| 9. | reosarevok | 37702 |
| 10. | refresh_daemon | 34806 |
| 11. | jesus2099 | 33515 |
| 12. | Senax | 30956 |
| 13. | MeinDummy | 25521 |
| 14. | mr_maxis | 24743 |
| 15. | Billy Yank | 20248 |
| 16. | dinog | 20215 |
| 17. | crazee_canuck | 18537 |
| 18. | ojnkpjg | 18469 |
| 19. | Bitmap | 17612 |
| 20. | kepstin | 16550 |
| 21. | NAvAP | 16095 |
| 22. | Jeroen | 16064 |
| 23. | rswarbrick | 15972 |
| 24. | zos18 | 15204 |
| 25. | fred576 | 14897 |
| Top Voters | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | chabreyflint | 49247 |
| 2. | salo.rock | 48651 |
| 3. | murdos | 33786 |
| 4. | Locustus | 29267 |
| 5. | SuicideScrub | 24312 |
| 6. | bogdanb | 22473 |
| 7. | nikki | 21085 |
| 8. | brianfreud | 20606 |
| 9. | gswanjord | 19276 |
| 10. | Bitmap | 17956 |
| 11. | MClemo | 17362 |
| 12. | drsaunde | 15082 |
| 13. | KRSCuan | 13922 |
| 14. | dinog | 13844 |
| 15. | reosarevok | 9650 |
| 16. | MeinDummy | 9262 |
| 17. | HumHumXX | 8534 |
| 18. | mr_maxis | 7617 |
| 19. | PhantomOTO | 7194 |
| 20. | articpenguin | 7092 |
| 21. | ojnkpjg | 6977 |
| 22. | Plagueis | 6877 |
| 23. | alphaseven | 6762 |
| 24. | fatih | 6611 |
| 25. | alllysssa | 5819 |
At the end of 2010, MusicBrainz had 14 machines in service. From the top, going down:
MusicBrainz uses 6mbits of bandwidth per second and draws 21 Amps of current for a power consumption of about 2,310 Watts. MusicBrainz physically occupies 20Us of space (half of a rack) at Digital West in San Luis Obispo, CA.
2010 was a challenging year for us, starting off with rocky finances, but support from Richard Jones and Google put us back on track. There were many people who thought that we could not ship NGS or that MusicBrainz would languish while we worked to complete NGS. Given that we had no server releases at all in 2010, we are pleased that the project remained relevant and that our community believed in us to finish NGS.
MusicBrainz would like to thank its community of stellar editors (see above), its core developers (Lukáš Lalinský, Oliver Charles, Kuno Woudt, Aurélien Mino), our hero of system administration, Dave Evans and our goddess of bug tracking, bug fixing, editing and all things unicode, Nikki. We thank Jamie McDonald for the awesome Android app he wrote and we’d also like to thank Pavan Chander for all of his contributions.
We’d like to thank Richard Jones, Google and every single donor who donated money to MetaBrainz in 2010. We’d also like to thank our board of directors (Cory Doctorow, Brian Zisk, Matt Wood, Rachel Segal/Carol Smith), our pro bono legal advisors Daniel Appelman and Ed Cavazos, our awesome hosting company Digital West and all of our customers. Finally, we would also like to thank the music teams at the BBC for their continued support and for motivating us to bring NGS to a close.
I just posted the Profit & Loss for 2010 for the MetaBrainz Foundation!
Short summary: We earned $177k and we’re in the black by almost $5k, but we’re still not raking in the bucks.
But, a tiny non-profit being in the black for this crappy economic climate is awesome and makes me happy. Watch for a full annual report coming in the next few weeks!
Introduction
In 2009 MusicBrainz placed a greater emphasis on working on our Next Generation Schema (NGS) and not focusing on business aspects of MusicBrainz as much. This turns out to have been a good strategy as 2009 was a lousy year to do business; the entire world economy was depressed. Many other non-profits had a really hard year, struggling to keep afloat. Fortunately the MetaBrainz Foundation managed to remain in the black for its fifth year in a row!
The most important aspect of work for MusicBrainz was NGS and after several years of planning we really kicked NGS development into high gear in May. Our employee Oliver Charles and our top contributor Lukáš Lalinský teamed up to tackle NGS as their combined Google Summer of Code project. Over the summer the codebase that Oliver had been tending for nearly a year already got another overhaul. And, by the end of summer a strong new MusicBrainz Server emerged! Paul Taylor took over the development of the Search Server and delivered a project that used 1/3 of the computing power than the code it replaced. In 2009 we only had one server release that brought us Release Groups and ISRC support — we had planned to have many more releases, but instead we opted to work on NGS full speed ahead.
2009 was also a year of many other changes: We switched from the MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki; we started moving from Trac to Jira for bug tracking and we started the process of moving from Subversion to Git for the main server codebase. And Kuno Woudt quit his job and prepared to come to work for the MetaBrainz Foundation in February 2010. In November 2009 we also gathered in Nürnberg Germany for the 10th MusicBrainz summit. Finally, Carol Smith of Google became our Secretary/Treasurer in December!
In many ways 2009 was a transformative year for MusicBrainz with an amazing amount of effort spent on improving the site for future growth. Sadly we didn’t see many fruits of our labors in 2009, but 2010 promises to be amazing as we roll out NGS!
Profit & Loss
In 2009 the foundation took in $103,387.77 and spent $97,685.50 for a total excess income $5,702.27. This excess income is down from $31,724.40 from the prior year; there were two primary reasons for this decrease in revenue: 1) The economic climate of 2009 was terrible and 2) the BBC had a 6 month delay in renewing their data license contract, which accounts for $9000 lost revenue that we’ll collect in the first half of 2010. Given these two factors, I’m pleased with the outcome for 2009!
Income
| Direct Donations | $30,170.00 |
| PayPal Donations | $7,631.97 |
| GSoC Mentor Income | $1000.00 |
| Live Data Feed licenses | $42,078.50 |
| CC Data licenses | $2,800.00 |
| Interest | $517.53 |
| Amazon Associates | $1,112.21 |
| CD Baby Affiliate | $19.00 |
| Tagger Affiliates | $17,842.96 |
| Reimbursements | $215.60 |
| Total Income: | $103,287.77 |
Expenses
| Bank fees | $366.67 |
| PayPal fees | $1,243.34 |
| Rent | $2,856.00 |
| Hardware | $3,152.56 |
| Travel | $2,229.15 |
| Internet | $100.00 |
| Marketing | $100.00 |
| Development | $67,231.41 |
| Gifts | $16.81 |
| Events | $1,481.18 |
| Hosting | $15,475.00 |
| Utilities | $13.42 |
| Filing Fees | $50.00 |
| Entertainment | $300.16 |
| Insurance | $2,025.00 |
| Accounting | $1,000.00 |
| Shipping | $44.71 |
| Total Expenses: | $97,685.50 |
The Profit & Loss shows:
In 2009 the foundation spent $18,627.56 on hosting and hardware costs and served out 2.1 billion web hits and 1.3 billon web service hits. Calculating a cost per hit, we find that we spent $8.66 per one million web hits and $14.37 per one million web service hits. These values are down significantly from the 2008 values of $16.21 and $26.58 respectively.
Balance Sheet
The balance sheet for the end of 2009 showed the MetaBrainz Foundation with $71,309.67 retained earnings, a net income of $5,702.27 and a total of cash assets of $77,011.94.
Traffic
The following chart shows our overall web traffic to musicbrainz.org for 2007 – 2009:
(click on the image to see a larger version)
The blue line represents the overall number of hits to musicbrainz.org. The red line shows how many of the overall hits were web service (API) hits; In 2009 60% of our hits were web service hits, which stays roughly consistent with our figure of 60.9% in 2008. Please note that this does not mean that 40% of our hits were full pages that were served; the total hit count includes images and other static content required to load a web page. It appears that about 10%-15% of our total hits were complete pages we served.
Top contributors
Top editors
1. drsaunde 80921 2. murdos 45003 3. nikki 41438 4. brianfreud 40312 5. voiceinsideyou 39372 6. NAvAP 29648 7. ojnkpjg 28369 8. reosarevok 28132 9. crazee_canuck 25100 10. MeinDummy 24914 11. fred576 24891 12. gnu_andrew 22367 13. salo.rock 21668 14. mr_maxis 21620 15. HumHumXX 20082 16. Senax 19867 17. cooperaa 17980 18. jesus2099 16320 19. Dr. Default 15601 20. chabreyflint 13297 21. MrH 13135 22. zos18 12524 23. KRSCuan 12179 24. Fabe56 11544 25. mudcrow 10603
Top voters:
1. voiceinsideyou 47841 2. murdos 34898 3. chabreyflint 31919 4. drsaunde 30487 5. MClemo 28067 6. KRSCuan 22779 7. Fabe56 19651 8. ojnkpjg 18192 9. nikki 16656 10. bogdanb 15239 11. wheelpoint 13891 12. chiark 13299 13. SuicideScrub 12843 14. NAvAP 11362 15. PhantomOTO 11238 16. teleguise 10963 17. Plagueis 10924 18. salo.rock 10724 19. MeinDummy 10402 20. ulugabi 10112 21. DrMuller 9818 22. yoursvivek 9674 23. fred576 7924 24. cooperaa 7787 25. pankkake 7154
A big thank you to all of the editors/voters who contributed! MusicBrainz would be nothing without your hard work!
Server farm
MusicBrainz has grown to 14 machines in service:
From the top, going down:
MusicBrainz currently requires somewhere between 5 and 6 mbits of bandwidth per second and draws 19 Amps of current for a power consumption of about 2,090 Watts. MusicBrainz physically occupies 20Us of space (half of a rack) at Digital West in San Luis Obispo, CA. Additionally, we have a mirror server was hosted at Last.fm in London and a test server hosted by Amplifind Media Services in Los Angeles.
Words of Appreciation
2009 was often challenging; trying to retool a large web site on a shoe-string budget is never fun. But in the end 2009 was the best year in MusicBrainz history — never before did we accomplish as much as we did in 2009!
Oliver Charles, Kuno Woudt, Paul Taylor, Lukáš Lalinský, Aurélien Mino, Nikki, Pavan Chander, Phillip Wolfer and Brian Schweitzer — your contributions to MusicBrainz cannot be underestimated! And, Dave Evans, continues to be our behind the scenes hero — MusicBrainz keeps running because of you! Also a big thanks to our board of directors who keep me in line and ensure that we keep out of legal trouble. I’d also like to thank Google and the entire Open Source Programs Office for supporting MusicBrainz in 2009 again.
Onward to an exciting 2010!
Here is the MetaBrainz Foundation annual report for 2008:
Introduction
2008 was a busy year for MusicBrainz: Our traffic doubled from January to December, we grew from 8 to 13 servers and we earned $35,000 more than in 2007. Most importantly we started 2008 with only one full time employee and ended the year with 2 and a half full time employees. Between having more employees and having three students work on Google Summer of Code projects, we’ve had more code written in 2008 than we have ever had before. A lot of these projects were long-term projects that would take us well into 2009 before seeing benefit from this work. Consequently we had only one server update in all of 2008, but we’re expecting to have about 3 major releases this year.
Despite widespread upheaval in the world economy, MusicBrainz managed to grow and stay consistent all through 2008. We added Amazon.com, MetaWeb and Cloudspeakers as our major customers and Google sponsored MusicBrainz with another $30,000 donation. Finishing 2008 with $71,000 in the bank MusicBrainz starts 2009 strong and healthy.
Profit & Loss
In 2008 the foundation took in $126,442.26 and spent $94,717.79 for a total profit of $31,724.47. (non-profits can still earn a profit, but that profit must be reinvested into the company, not paid out to its officers and directors.) A detailed break down of where the income came from and where it went to is shown below:
Income
| Direct donations | $30,219.00 |
| PayPal donations | $13,271.25 |
| Consulting (GSoC Mentor income) | $1,500 |
| Live Data Feed licenses | $60,472.56 |
| CC Data Licenses | $2,400.00 |
| Interest | $1,211.92 |
| Amazon Associates | $1060.72 |
| CD Baby affiliate | $11.00 |
| Tagger Affiliates | $16,294.94 |
| Bank Credits | $0.87 |
| Total income: | $126,442.26 |
Expense
| Bank fees | $240.90 |
| PayPal fees | $1,546.61 |
| Rent | $2,856.00 |
| Hardware | $9,107.98 |
| Travel | $2,456.61 |
| Internet | $275.41 |
| Marketing | $1,564.69 |
| Development | $60,415.16 |
| Supplies | $38.23 |
| Gifts | $100.00 |
| Events | $792.17 |
| Hosting | $11,904.50 |
| Filing Fees | $45.00 |
| Software | $239.92 |
| Entertainment | $75.15 |
| Insurance | $2008.00 |
| Accounting | $965.00 |
| Shipping | $86.46 |
| Total expense: | $94,717.79 |
This Profit & Loss shows:
In 2008 the foundation spent, $21,012.48 on hosting and hardware costs and served out 1.3 billion web hits and 790 million web service hits. Calculating a cost per hit, we find that we spent $16.21 per one million web hits and $26.58 per one million web service hits. These values are down significantly from the 2007 values of $17.89 and $33.58 respectively.
Balance Sheet
The balance sheet for the end of 2008 showed the MetaBrainz Foundation with $39,525.20 retained earnings, a net income of $31,249.67 and total cash assets of $71,249,67.
Traffic
The following chart shows our traffic growth for 2007 and 2008:
The blue line represents the overall number of hits to musicbrainz.org. The red line shows how many of the overall hits were web service (API) hits; as you can see towards the end of 2007 half of our overall hits were web service hits. Towards the end of 2008 our web service hits accounted for 60.9% of our overall hits, up from 50% in 2007.
Top data contributors
Top editors:
| drsaunde | 141064 |
| ojnkpjg | 40796 |
| murdos | 33517 |
| voiceinsideyou | 32660 |
| knakker | 31598 |
| brianfreud | 30242 |
| teleguise | 29756 |
| bgibbard | 23676 |
| MrH | 22521 |
| Isomer | 21203 |
| cooperaa | 19808 |
| mudcrow | 19162 |
| fred576 | 17634 |
| chiark | 17561 |
| StoneyBoh | 16637 |
| zos18 | 16466 |
| Jormangeud | 16264 |
| leivhe | 15983 |
| Mistoffeles | 15710 |
| Creap | 15373 |
| jesus2099 | 12990 |
| Dr. Default | 12099 |
| montesquieu | 11810 |
| infofarmer | 10990 |
| nikki | 10015 |
Top voters:
| ojnkpjg | 35834 |
| drsaunde | 35374 |
| voiceinsideyou | 28376 |
| chiark | 20704 |
| mudcrow | 19892 |
| murdos | 14793 |
| leivhe | 12864 |
| bogdanb | 12560 |
| bgibbard | 11898 |
| cooperaa | 10954 |
| symphonick | 10642 |
| teleguise | 9778 |
| vincentrichter | 8668 |
| MClemo | 8302 |
| DrMuller | 6847 |
| bawjaws | 6208 |
| infofarmer | 5861 |
| PhantomOTO | 5747 |
| Kerensky97 | 5740 |
| debris77 | 5611 |
| lukz | 5460 |
| dmppanda | 5163 |
| krazykiwi | 5097 |
| dj_empirical | 5035 |
| Atedos | 4970 |
A big thank you to all of the editors/voters who contributed! MusicBrainz would be nothing without your hard work!
Server farm
MusicBrainz has grown to 13 machines in service:
From the top, going down:
MusicBrainz currently requires somewhere between 3 and 4 mbits of bandwidth per second and draws 18 Amps of current for a power consumption of nearly 2,000 Watts. MusicBrainz physically occupies 20Us of space (half of a rack) at Digital West in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Words of Appreciation
2008 was an exciting year for MusicBrainz and it could not have happened without the countless volunteers who have spent inordinate amounts of time and effort working on MusicBrainz. It is not possible to thank everyone who has contributed — for starters see the list of top editors and top voters. There were so many people behind the scenes or at partner companies that are not readily apparent from the outside.
MetaBrainz would like to thank Matthew Wood and his entire team at the BBC; through Matthew’s efforts the relationship between the BBC and MusicBrainz has been flourishing. Wendell Hicken and Sergey Borisov at MusicIP are the stars at MuiscIP who look out for MusicBrainz every day. Lukáš Lalinský, Oliver Charles, Aurélien Mino and Brian Schweitzer — your contributions to the MusicBrainz server cannot be underestimated! Dave Evans, you’re MusicBrainz’ unsung hero for all of your efforts behind the scene — MusicBrainz keeps running because of you!
Thanks to everyone who helped MusicBrainz in 2008 — MusicBrainz could not exist without you!
Finally, in 2008 quite a few contributors donated chocolate to MusicBrainz as a form of appreciation. Last year working on MusicBrainz was helped along with chocolate from Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, the United Kingdom. Thanks to everyone who sent in chocolate!
(Yes, this report is a year late — I had spent a lot of time on the annual report for 2006 and got so little feedback on it that I assumed no one cared. But now in 2008 I’ve been getting many more requests, so I’ve gone back and with the help of Pavan compiled the stats for 2007.)
Profit & Loss
In 2007 the foundation took in $89,645.59 and spent $64,543.84 for a total profit of $25,101.75. (non-profits can still earn a profit, but that profit must be reinvested into the company, not paid out to its officers and directors.) A detailed break down of where the income came from and where it went to is shown below:
Income
| Direct donations | $30,205.00 |
| PayPal donations | $14,575.59 |
| Consulting (GSoC Mentor income) | $1,500 |
| Live Data Feed licenses | $30,340.47 |
| CC Data Licenses | $1,900.00 |
| Interest | $357.45 |
| Amazon Associates | $714.39 |
| Tagger Affiliates | $10,052,69 |
| Total income: | 89,645.59 |
Expense
| Bank fees | $64.65 |
| PayPal fees | $1,570.92 |
| Rent | $2,779.00 |
| Hardware | $732.06 |
| Travel | $2,933.49 |
| Internet | $89.01 |
| Marketing | $765.00 |
| Development | $39,500 |
| Supplies | $56.88 |
| Events | $400.92 |
| Hosting | $12,240.00 |
| Filing Fees | $25.00 |
| Software | $-41.45 |
| Entertainment | $27.32 |
| Insurance | $1,996.00 |
| Accounting | $1,200.00 |
| Total expense: | $64,543.84 |
This Profit & Loss shows:
In 2007 the foundation spent $12,972.06 on hosting and hardware costs and served out 725 million web hits and 386 million web service hits. Calculating a cost per hit, we find that we spent $17.89 per one million web hits and $33.58 per one million web service hits. These values are up slightly from the 2006 values of $17.56 and $30.58 respectively.
Balance Sheet
The balance sheet for the end of 2007 showed the MetaBrainz Foundation with $14,323.45 retained earnings, a net income of $25,101.75 and total cash assets of $39,525.20.
Traffic
The following chart shows our traffic growth for 2007 and 2008:
The blue line represents the overall number of hits to musicbrainz.org. The red line shows how many of the overall hits were web service (API) hits; as you can see towards the end of 2007 half of our overall hits were web service hits.
Top data contributors
Top editors:
| drsaunde | 125665 |
| ojnkpjg | 106211 |
| brianfreud | 102090 |
| mudcrow | 44423 |
| murdos | 32111 |
| teleguise | 26541 |
| dmppanda | 23264 |
| cooperaa | 16705 |
| Schika | 16420 |
| zout | 16160 |
| voiceinsideyou | 15268 |
| artysmokes | 13380 |
| Kerensky97 | 12174 |
| foolip | 11403 |
| lukz | 11031 |
| bench12345 | 10014 |
| AnAlach | 9323 |
| gioele | 8742 |
| headlocker | 8450 |
| Pianissimo84 | 8364 |
| SenRepus | 8183 |
| leivhe | 7815 |
| Liff | 7748 |
| lytron | 7740 |
| zos18 | 7533 |
Top voters:
| drsaunde | 47850 |
| ojnkpjg | 41365 |
| brianfreud | 27382 |
| voiceinsideyou | 19874 |
| cooperaa | 19348 |
| headlocker | 16183 |
| lukz | 13792 |
| mudcrow | 12861 |
| gioele | 11259 |
| cadalach | 10677 |
| bogdanb | 10496 |
| CatCat | 9214 |
| symphonick | 8767 |
| teleguise | 8571 |
| Dr. Default | 8313 |
| BrianG | 7936 |
| crazee_canuck | 7842 |
| keschte | 7838 |
| cybercox | 7802 |
| Xaiver | 7699 |
| Pianissimo84 | 7175 |
| murdos | 7165 |
| artysmokes | 6495 |
| helver | 6349 |
| debris77 | 6276 |
A big thank you to all of the editors/voters who contributed!
I’ve just completed the MetaBrainz Foundation Annual Report for 2006!
The report provides a close look at our finances, traffic, community and provides a general review of 2006. Some interesting tidbits from the report:
In 2006, the Foundation spent $10,758.67 on hosting and hardware costs and served out 614 million web hits and 352 million web service hits. Calculating a cost per hit, we find that we spent $17.56 per one million web hits and $30.58 per one million web service hits.
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The balance sheet for 2006 shows that the MetaBrainz Foundation closed out the year with retained earnings of $7,984.50, net income of $6,338.95 and total cash assets of $14,423.45.
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Mudcrow, our top editor and voter (peer reviewer) of 2006 made an astounding 100,998 changes to the database and voted on 38,347 edits from other editors! Thank you for all of your efforts mudcrow!
The report is full of other details about MusicBrainz and MetaBrainz. Go take a look!
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