Community Meetings: ManiMeets

ManiMeets are community meetings with a focus on development of the library.

1st ManiMeet (September 1, 2023)

Schedule:

Time (in UTC+2 / CEST)	Speaker	Title	Recording
16:00 -- 16:45	Benjamin Hackl	Contributing and You: A step-by-step introduction to developing Manim	YouTube
16:45 -- 17:00		Break and Socializing
17:00 -- 17:40	jsonV	Introduction to Manim's Project Structure	YouTube
17:40 -- 18:20	MrDiver	The verts and frags of OpenGL	YouTube
18:20 -- 18:40		Break and Socializing
~~18:40 -- 19:00~~	~~dudewaldo4~~	~~Pursuing Integrated Algebra~~
18:40 -- open end	everyone	Q&A on development and community

Benjamin Hackl -- Contributing and You: A step-by-step introduction to developing Manim

In the opening session of the first ManiMeet we will walk through the contribution workflow and explain, step by step, which steps you will need to follow to bring your improvements to ManimCommunity! Preliminaries: a working installation of Python and Git.
jsonV -- Introduction to Manim's Project Structure

A brief overview of Manim starting with files at the root of the repository (like pyproject.toml), surface-level look at most of the subdirectories (like .github/, docs/, tests/, and scripts/) and finally an in-depth look at the core package starting at the entrypoint (manim/*).

The in-depth look will take a look at all of the core modules (_config, animation, camera, cli, etc.) but will focus at length on the relations between the renderer, scene, and mobject modules.
MrDiver -- The verts and frags of OpenGL

A quick tour on OpenGL, Manim and debugging shaders.
dudewaldo4 -- Pursuing Integrated Algebra (will take place at a future date)

A showcase of some early work in incorporating an understanding of algebraic structure into tex mobjects, allowing for intelligent and structure-aware transformations between latex expressions with minimal instruction from the end user.