Board Meeting Minutes - November 2025

Attendees

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

Agenda

• 3.8.5 Ship it already.
• Funding updates, focus on outreach.
• Considering MonoGame extensions on XNA from feedback.
• DotNet 10, considering impacts and usage.
• Improving build performance, focusing testing each target ONCE.
• New content needed for the Content Pipeline, focusing on supporting strategies for console.

Outcomes

• Focusing on merging final work and get the Preview release chain started, final gate to release.
• Audio backend missing from Vulkan, DX12 - base implementation to be delivered in 3.8.5 for test.
• Existing Assimp fix to be merged, to be monitored for the future.
• Known issue with Assimp (3D import), pending work from the provider. As it is an existing issue in 3.8.4, this will be fixed after 3.8.5 release.
• Continual review of Native asset format handling, ongoing work. Moving asset compilation/decompilation on the native framework.
• Vulkan and DX 12 packaging to be generated.
• MonoGame will continue to be built with DotNet 8 for the time being, until the DotNet 10 has been tested more. Testing automation with DotNet 10 to "see how it goes".
• Ongoing review of automation processes, to maximise efficiency.
• Simon to collate all the best practices for Content to showcase a new stream/show and documentation. Stay tuned!

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