.. _mission-statement: 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 ` 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 `__.