We are thrilled to announce that Matplotlib has been awarded a grant from the ChanZuckerberg Initiative’s Essential Open Source Software for Science program. This funding will help us foster community, documentation, and tools to grow a rich ecosystem of domain-specific libraries built on Matplotlib; maintain the library and contributor base; and develop a comprehensive plan to evolve the core architecture.
The proposal lives at https://github.com/matplotlib/CZI_2019-07_mpl/blob/master/CZI_mpl.pdf
We are grateful to @efiring, @jklymak, @tacaswell, and @story645 for their work on the grant proposal, to our fiscal sponsor NumFocus for their invaluable resources, and CZI Science for the opportunity to carry out this much needed work.