Open Hours 2

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+title: 2nd MonoGame "Open Hours" AMA session
+date: "2024-11-13"
+excerpt: Meet the MonoGame team and get your questions answered
+tags: announcements
+author: MonoGame Foundation
+image: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png
+ogImage: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png
+---
+
+The MonoGame Foundation is hoping you can join the MonoGame community for our 2nd AMA session.
+
+## 2nd "Open Hours" AMA Meeting
+
+The 2nd MonoGame "Open Hours" AMA meeting will be on:
+
+### Wednesday 20th November @ 12:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC/GMT, 17:00 CET 
+
+### Channel and Connection Details
+
+#### [MonoGame Community discord - Open Hours channel](https://discord.gg/monogame?event=1295042873430905024)
+
+## Agenda
+
+We will learn as we go for these sessions.
+This time we'll have:
+* An overview of the Native Implementation for Vulkan/DX12 by [Tom](https://github.com/tomspilman)
+* Q&A from the Community
+
+If you prefer to just type, the call will also use Discord's text features and the team will be on hand to respond too.
+
+::: note Only during open hours
+The "Open Hours" chat will only be open during the meeting (and clearing up any outstanding questions afterward), it will not be a general support forum.  The team are making this time available to the community, so please do not abuse it.
+
+If you have queries beyond the meeting times, then we recommend you use the rest of the Discord channel.
+:::
+
+We look forward to meeting and hearing from you then!
+
+## The Meeting Schedule
+
+If you can't make this month, all is not lost. Each month, one week on from the MonoGame Foundation monthly board meeting, the group has agreed to host a series of sessions to both communicate announcements to the community and also open the floor up to questions the community has about MonoGame operations or ask questions that they have about the framework.
+
+* MonoGame Board meetings - 2nd Wednesday each month
+* "MonoGame "Open Hours" - 3rd Wednesday each month - 4PM UTC
+
+### Support
+
+You can support us financially here - https://monogame.net/donate/
+
+
+## Get Involved
+
+- Code.
+- Help in the [Community discord](https://discord.gg/monogame) and beyond (we also love blog posts).
+- [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=3142012), several tiers are available.
+- The MonoGame store (coming soon) with MonoGame branded gear and merchandise.
+- [Bounties](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8120), Fix bugs and add features faster as well as get paid for your work :)
+
+---
+
+### Onwards and Upwards
+
+The MonoGame Foundation team