Board Meeting Minutes - April 2026

By: MonoGame Foundation Apr 8, 2026
meeting

Board meeting took place on April 8th, 2026.

Attendees

  • Simon Jackson - Corporate Secretary
  • Tom Spilman - Banking Matters
  • Dominique Louis - Chairman
  • Dean Ellis - President
  • Garrick Campsey
  • Christopher Whitley
  • Vic Chelaru

Agenda

  • Welcome new board members
  • Samples update and future planning
  • AMA meeting planning
  • Discuss secret project, coordinate planning
  • 2026 - look ahead
  • Final prep for 3.8.5 release
  • Bounties

Outcomes

  • Welcome Chris, Vic and Garrick to the Foundation board (about page updated)
  • Push for 3.8.5 release continues
  • Samples Update
    • Ascent - Ongoing and part of the Friday stream
    • 3D Platformer - Tom to test again on Vulkan/DX12 by. Nearly done
    • 3D FPS - Needs someone with Blender skills to create a couple of levels. Possible more tweaks.
    • CardStarterKit - More tweaks to make it more modular
    • MonoGame.Samples - Dominique needs to fix resolution for Platformer2D, in PR
    • RPG StarterKit - Dominique to chase artist.
    • Chris to Create list of common community issues so we can create Samples. Maybe included as sample in XNAFiddle?
    • Dominique to look at creating Native Vulkan and DX12 templates
    • Tom to get fiddle.monogame.net to redirect to XNAFiddle.net
  • AMA schedule planned
  • Secret project discussed and next steps planned
  • 2026
    • Funding goals: Need more Medium donations. Maybe reach out to bigger players for donatios.
    • Chris suggested looking into useing Open Collective
    • Maybe a Game Stream for more marketing
    • Dominique and Garrick to discuss more 60s, addictive shorts

New Bounties under consideration

  • SDF Fonts (in design
  • Multiple Window support on desktops.
  • Dav1d video decoder.
  • Debug GPU features (markers and resource naming)
  • Metal backend for MacOS.
  • OpenGL backend for native
  • Wasm backend for native (depends on above)
  • Native Android/iOS backends which use Vulkan.

Send feedback on new/upcoming bounties here:

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