Why are we doing this?

• Mainly: Fun!
• Growing together as a community!
• Improving Manim, make it better for everyone! 📈
• (Also maybe because there are prizes. 👀)

How did we get here?

• ~1 year ago: #1 was merged!
• Since then: ~800 PRs by over 65 contributors! 🤯
• 🌟: 📈📈📈

Some documentation statistics

• Daily views: 5000–6000!
• Most visited pages within 30 days

How do I participate in the Hackathon?

• Actively: Post code + videos (use our Manimator bot for short submissions) for animations related to our Hackathon theme.
• Passively: Look through submission channels and react to submissions you like / that fit the theme well with a Manim-🌟!

How do I participate in the Hackathon?

• Submissions with a certain number of Manim-🌟 reactions are collected in #hackathon-starboard.

What about the prizes?

• Prizes are awarded by our jury consisting of moderators and non-participating developers. Prizes will be awarded for...
  1. single high quality submissions with many 🌟-reactions, and
  2. accumulated 🌟-reactions over all submissions.
• This means: a single submission with many 🌟-reactions is just as able to win as several submissions with few(er) 🌟-reactions.
• Each participant can win at most one prize.

What about the prizes?

There's a Manim community hackathon happening this weekend. I'll send prizes to the top 5 contributions.

What kind of prizes would you like to see? I'm thinking of including a good math book, maybe "Proofs from the Book", along with a plushie pi. Other thoughts? https://t.co/YNtK0pr1Ly

— Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) June 2, 2021

... plus additional digital goodies (e.g., Discord Nitro) sponsored by the community!

Thanks to our sponsors! ❤️

Hackathon Themes - 1

• Current situation: a lot of the library is not documented properly. 😢

Document All the Things – Challenge

Workflow:

• Choose a class to work on; use our Google Doc to show what you are working on.
• Craft an example! Restrictions: ≤ 10 sec duration, ≤ 4 play calls – or images.
• Once you are satisfied: submit your code via !manimate to #submission-docs. Star other submissions that you like!

Document All the Things – Challenge

• Is your submission on the starboard? Great! Add it to the documentation!
• Contributing to the documentation is easy, 3 steps:
  1. Get the right formatting for your example! Our @Manimator bot can help with !mdocstring.
  2. Go to the repository, open the file containing your class/method, paste your example in the docstring. Like here!
  3. Hit the green button to open your Pull Request!

Hackathon Themes - 2

Happy Anniversary, Manim!

• All animations that fit a anniversary theme (e.g., balloons, fireworks, planetary orbits, cake, ...)!
• Send code + upload rendered videos to #submissions-anniversary.
• Team-submissions allowed, ping all members.

Questions?

Happy Coding, everyone!