We are careful stewards of the thoughtful donations we receive from you. But that doesn’t make our team complacent. The state of Thunderbird’s finances is strong. The remaining items help us to run the business, such as the services and technology we use to communicate and manage operations, insurance, bank and donation processing fees. Professional Services are things like HR, legal and tax services, as well as agreements with other Mozilla entities to provide technology infrastructure and operational resources. Here’s an overview of our total spending in 2022: While personnel is where most of our money is spent, there are other areas crucial to Thunderbird’s continued operation. The Thunderbird Project’s total operating expenses for 2022 was $3,569,706. Rest assured that we have no plans to charge money for the powerful Thunderbird experience you enjoy today (nor do we plan to remove features and charge for them later). We’re planning to introduce some of these, in Beta status, later this year. We’ve been exploring additional sources of revenue in the form of new tools and services to increase your productivity. Thunderbird is also expanding beyond the core experience you already use. And yes, we’re almost ready to add an iOS version to our roadmap! Later in 2023, we’ll hire an iOS developer to begin creating the foundation for Thunderbird on iOS. Last summer we invested in the K-9 Mail Project, which is being steadily improved in its transformation to Thunderbird on Android. This work will largely pay off in our 2024 release, however it does power some of the improvements in the 115 “Supernova” release this summer.īut we’re also building beyond the desktop, to provide you with a truly cross-platform, synergistic experience. These changes address many years of technical debt that has limited our ability to add new features at a brisk pace. In 2022 we also laid the groundwork for large architectural changes for Thunderbird on the desktop. This past year we expended significant effort to dramatically improve Thunderbird’s UX and bring it in-line with modern expectations and standards. The breakout growth we enjoyed last year means hiring even more talented people to vastly improve the Thunderbird desktop experience.
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