Board Meeting Minutes - June 2026

By: MonoGame Foundation Jun 10, 2026
meeting

Board meeting took place on June 10th, 2026.

Attendees

  • Dean Ellis - President
  • Simon Jackson - Corporate Secretary
  • Tom Spilman - Banking Matters
  • Garrick Campsey - Board Member
  • Christopher Whitley - Board Member

Agenda

  • 3.8.5 - top of mind
  • Terms of Service / Policy updates
  • Microsoft ARM - RFI for the 3.8.5 release
  • Open Hours
  • reviewing the license notifications for third party libraries?
  • Bounties

Outcomes

  • 3.8.5 aiming for final release in June, critical path due to other dependencies.
  • Vulkan and DX12 performance impacts have delayed release and close to delivery.
  • MonoGame Foundation policies being reviewed and refreshed.
  • ARM is fully available in MonoGame for 3.8.5, for both Development and running projects.
  • Presentation this month on the DX12/Vulkan performance fixes.
  • Overview on the upcoming new Font Rendering system to be presented, aiming for a future delivery of MonoGame.
  • Work is underway to publish license guidance for Monogame projects with the introduction of FreeType as a dependency.
  • New bounty procedure is needed following the difficulties with recent deliverables before publishing future bounties.

New Bounties under consideration

  • 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.

[!NOTE] Bounties MUST be published before the Foundation can accept applications, as the bounty conditions need to be rattified by the board before publication.

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