DOC: edits from 2022-06-30 developer call

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit b602c9a19adf · 2022-06-30T15:50:16.000-04:00
diff --git a/doc/users/project/mission.rst b/doc/users/project/mission.rst
@@ -2,25 +2,20 @@ Matplotlib Mission Statement
 ============================
 
 The Matplotlib developer community develops, maintains, and supports Matplotlib
-and its extensions to provide data visualization tools for the Scientific Python
-Ecosystem.
-
-We believe that a diverse developer community creates the best software, and we
-welcome anyone who shares our mission and values, as described in the code of
-conduct.
+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:
 
-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 complicated visualizations possible.
 
-* Support all users of the Scientific Python Ecosystem;
-* Produce high-quality raster and vector format outputs;
-* Be usable as a stand-alone graphical user interface, and to be embeddable in applications, both native and on the web.
-* Be understandable and extendable by people familiar with data processing
-  techniques and with the Python programming language;
-* Make common plots easy;
-* Make novel or complicated visualizations possible.
 
-To achieve these goals for the full range of domains where Scientific Python is
-used, Matplotlib provides a general library on which domain-specific
-extensions can be built.
+We believe that a diverse developer community creates the best software, and we
+welcome anyone who shares our mission and values, as described in the code of
+conduct.
