January meeting (#271)

* January meeting

* Update attendee's

Author: SimonDarksideJ

website/content/blog/2026-01-14-meeting.md

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+title: Board Meeting Minutes - January 2026
+date: "2026-01-14"
+excerpt: New Year's greetings
+tags: meeting
+author: MonoGame Foundation
+image: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png
+ogImage: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png
+---
+
+## Attendees
+
+- Dean Ellis - President
+- Dominique Louis - Treasurer
+- Simon Jackson - Corporate Secretary
+- Tom Spilman - Banking Matters
+- Thomas Altenburger - Board Member
+
+## Agenda
+
+- Financial status.
+- Review Current Staff Priorities, are we focused on the right areas?
+- Restoring the Discourse community site.
+- Finishing 3.8.5
+- Hub release schedule
+- Our goals for 3.8.6.
+- Updating our roadmap page.
+- Patreon Fees are an issue (15% in fees, GitHub is max 6%).
+
+## Outcomes
+
+- MonoGame finances are improving with ConcernedApe, we now have sufficient funding for another 24 months of development and maintenance.
+- Seeking new funding to extend the scope of MonoGame's capabilities in 2026.
+- Improve Automation testing for all platforms and status validation.
+- Work is underway to restore the Community site and re-enable the mail server connection.
+- Final 3.8.5 PR's getting updated and merged, race to release.  New preview this week.
+- Looking to expand test hardware to add additional certified platforms.  (Add suggestions!)
+- New bounty to launch to test ARM building compatibility for tools / builds.
+- Work is underway to update the Sponsors highlighted on the MonoGame website.
+- Sponsor onboarding process improvements required.
+- Foundation discussed recent concerns raised over AI use, the contribution guides will be updated to reflect our position.
+
+## Outstanding Bounties
+
+All current bounties are either complete or in progress.
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