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.