Our purpose is to support software and communities that ensure unrestricted access to the best computational tools for research and education in mathematics, science, and engineering. As research grows increasingly dependent on computing, it becomes critical for our computational resources to be developed with the same rigor, open review and access as the results they support. For this reason, we actively promote:

• sharing of scientific software, data and knowledge necessary for reproducible research
• unrestricted access to research outcomes and educational tools
• open source software developed by collaborative, meritocratic communities
• academic recognition of computational developments on equal footing to the publication of results
• openly tested, validated and documented software as the basis for reliable scientific outcomes
• high standards of computational literacy in the education of mathematicians, scientists and engineers