Board Meeting Minutes

By: MonoGame Foundation Mar 12, 2025
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Attendee's

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

Agenda

  • Discussion on how to expedite updates/releases.
  • Staff report/review what has been accomplished. Do we need more people on the payroll to focus on fixing issues.

Outcomes

  • New bounty (#8661) updated to help address the AssimpNetter regression issue with some textures.
  • Proposal to have a new staff member to address automation and increase issue/PR resolution capacity, Simon Jackson proposed and agreed.
  • Agreement to set a standard for Commit mesages to make release changelogs better, to be added to the contributon guidlines.
  • Increase the bounty for (#8642) to $2000 "Finish MacOS and Linux Vulkan Native Backend Support - urgent need.
  • DX12 Pr is in the final stretch and XBox is right behind. Release imminent.
  • Discussion on SDL3 which is not a priority as it does not add value, however, the new Native backend will use SDL3 by default in the future.
  • AMA schedule to discuss the content pipeline improvements.

Outstanding Bounties

Help is requested on the following outstanding bounties:

  • [PAID BOUNTY] Finish off MacOS and Linux Vulkan Native Backend Support #8642 💰 $2000 USD
  • [PAID BOUNTY] Fix Rendering of Ship Models for ShipGame sample #8661 💰 $500 USD
  • [PAID BOUNTY] Create native backend for Content Pipeline #8641

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