Board Meeting Minutes - June 2025

By: MonoGame Foundation Jun 11, 2025
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Attendee's

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

Agenda

  • Official Game Jam on Itch.io
  • Discuss Ascent development and roll out plans.
  • Review MonoGame dependency checkouts - seeing we are some releases behind in some submodules, e.g. Vulkan / SDL2

Outcomes

  • Decided to use BEPU 2 Physics for Ascent Demo
  • Minimize Nuget hell
    • Possibly depending on submodules instead
    • Simon or Dom to document dependencies.
  • Dean to set up Game Jam
  • Simon and Dean to set Repo Template
  • Aims for Ascent Demo
    • Tom's team to do art content
    • Attribution licence?
    • Blog post about Ascent
    • Early access will need a GitHub account.
    • Discord channel linked to tiers for Ascent
  • Dom - GitHub Sponsors tiers
  • Test AMA 20 mins before live

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] Create native backend for Content Pipeline #8641 💰 $1000 USD

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