Board Meeting Minutes - August 2025

By: MonoGame Foundation Aug 13, 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

  • MonoGame Trademark
  • MonoGame twitch account owned by Russians, can we reclaim it?
  • Handling of tool.x and library.x repos for dependencies
  • Create a MonoGame Steam Curator account.
  • Start zipping up all artifacts and deliver that as part of the releases/pre-releases/etc.
  • What is the AMA this month to focus on? (Possible AMA guest: Jonathan Peppers to talk about Draw a Stickman)
  • Do we want to spend money on things like YouTube promotions and the like on other platforms?
  • Ship the new content pipeline flaws and all.
  • Consider if we should ship 3D platformer kit this month or next month.
  • Discuss reviving the Discourse community site.

Outcomes

  • MonoGame Trademark to get migrated to the Foundation.
  • Foundation to claim the "MonoGame" twitch channel in preparation for also streaming the Open Hours and other content there.
  • Work to simplify working with Source is underway, removing the dependency hell that is present today. Greatly simplifying source access.
  • Additionally, work has begun on a DLL download version for MonoGame, which should also reduce the need for developers to use source, especially for offline access.
  • Work has begun to simplify MonoGame templates as the Framework evolves, review required.
  • MonoGame Foundation to setup a Steam Curation account to aid developers
  • Schedule to be arranged for this month's AMA with a possible mystery guest
  • Content Builder solution marches to the final preview, ready for use/test
  • Finalising plans for the public release of the 3D platformer, the team is ensuring that best efforts are made to test everywhere
  • MonoGame Foundation is working to revive the Discourse server for the community, no timeline as yet

Outstanding Bounties

All current bounties are either complete or in progress.

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