| Mission Statement | |
| ================= | |
| The Matplotlib developer community develops, maintains, and supports Matplotlib | |
| and its extensions to provide data visualization tools for the Scientific | |
| Python Ecosystem. | |
| Adapting the requirements :ref:`laid out by John Hunter <project_history>` | |
| Matplotlib should: | |
| * Support users of the Scientific Python ecosystem; | |
| * Facilitate interactive data exploration; | |
| * Produce high-quality raster and vector format outputs suitable for publication; | |
| * Provide a simple graphical user interface and support embedding in applications; | |
| * Be understandable and extensible by people familiar with data processing in Python; | |
| * Make common plots easy, and novel or complex visualizations possible. | |
| We believe that a diverse developer community creates the best software, and we | |
| welcome anyone who shares our mission, and our values described in the `code of | |
| conduct | |
| <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>`__. | |