Agenda

1. Updates from the Manim community organisation
2. Overall goals for Manim
3. Road to Manim v1.0
4. Any other business + space for open discussions

How does this meeting work?

• No screen sharing in Discord stage channels, visuals via twitch.tv/behackl (mute if listening / talking via Discord)
• Otherwise: everything very relaxed, core devs will give input to items on agenda, everyone is welcome to comment and participate
• To participate: request to get "on stage" to speak, or use #meeting-chat / Twitch chat

Updates from community organisation

• Updated organisation governance: elected steering council!
• Manim is now affiliated to NumFOCUS
• Funding
  • New OpenCollective account for managing donations
  • Current expenses: manim.community domain, manimator Discord bot
  • Ideas for future expenses: server, backups / backhub, paid GitHub plan for more CI?
  • Far-away goal: (part-time) paid devs

Goals for Manim

• We want Manim to be "TeX for mathematical videos".
• Important features: easy to use^{(hard to master?)}, batteries included, programmatic, ...?
• Relationship with 3b1b/manim a.k.a. manimgl?
• How important are 2D animations vs 3D animations? Interactivity? Custom plugins?
• Which other (Python) libraries (e.g., matplotlib) would you like to see interfaces to?
• What should the library try to accomplish?

Road to Manim v1.0

Current situation: bad

• Manim Community = Grant's old cairo code + manimgl mashed together, plus new features / bugfixes / polishing by community devs
• Current mobject class structure, thanks to Citrusmunch: click here
• Roadmap in our Wiki

Refactor to the rescue: some suggestions

• Maintenance mode: freeze merging of PRs introducing new features for a while, focus development on cleaning up + unifying core concepts between cairo and OpenGL renderer backend
• Development happens on separate branch, tests are allowed to be broken there
• Merging code to development branch without review?
• Continued maintenance on main branch? Should we continue to have monthly bugfix releases?
• What happens to currently open PRs?

Fix core concepts, a very top-level overview

• Mobject: Unify Mobject / OpenGLMobject, VMobject / OpenGLVMobject. Remove Metaclass.
• Renderer: should have an abstract base class which specifies the interface for new rendering backends.
• Scene: should be renderer implementation agnostic.
• Camera: send help cairo Camera needs rework, details to be discussed

Experimental external C++ rendering backend: Maki

• Link to Maki
• Not set in stone whether Manim will fully integrate it, but interesting experiment
• Walkthrough by Chris 👏

Any other business / open space for discussions