Board Meeting Minutes

By: MonoGame Foundation Nov 13, 2024

Attendee's

  • Dean Ellis - President
  • Dominique Louis - Treasurer
  • Simon Jackson - Corporate Secretary
  • Tom Spilman - Banking Matters
  • Marko Jeremic - Board Chairman

Agenda

  • Separation of the larger MonoGame project templates
  • Discussion around 3.8.3 maintenance release for December
  • Revision/refresh of the community tutorial page
  • Open Hours for November
  • Bounty updates

Outcomes

  • Larger MonoGame templates to move to the MonoGame.Samples repository, no downturn effect on users who will still use dotnet new from the CLI.
  • 3.8.3 release is on track for maintenance fixes in November.
  • Tutorials page to be revised to organize older content (with warning) lower, with current/valid tutorials to the top.
  • Call for new content to submit to the community tutorials page.
  • Open Hours for November will focus on the Vulkan/DX 12 native update, with Q&A.
  • All bounties are progressing, although not at a pace that was expected. Used for lessons learned in future bounties.
  • Year-in-review post to be published.
  • Renewed focus to prioritize content for active Patreons and drive value to contributors.
  • New swag showcased, we finally found a good printer.

Support

  • Financially - several tiers and options available for Github, PayPal and Patreon.
  • The MonoGame Store - MonoGame branded gear and merchandise.

Get Involved

  • Code, we accept Pull Requests.
  • Help in the Community discord and beyond (we also love blog posts).
  • Bounties, Fix bugs and add features faster as well as get paid for your work :)

Onwards and Upwards

The MonoGame Foundation team