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##What is Add-Art? Add-Art is a Firefox plugin that replaces ads on websites with art images!
##The Purpose of Add-Art##
- Provide millions of web users with an option to view to art instead of advertising during everday web browsing.
- To help everyday web users to discover and understand contemporary art.
- To provide an unconventional, independent venue, and broad audience to artists and to compensate artists for their participation.
##Goals## To create a configurable ad-blocking browser extension that substitutes advertising in web pages with art images. The plugin will be on par with the best ad blocking software available, with the further ability to simply add art instead of blank space. To insure as long a life as possible, the plugin will require little maintenance and few resources as possible.
###An Autonomous System### This project will be as sustainable as possible through creating a system which can maintain itself with little intervention and maintenance. Add-Art will work without being dependent on any one person. At first we will need to administer it, tweak the system, make improvements, and keep it on course, but we hope to minimize this input as the project develops. Later, any administration will be simple enough that anyone can do it. This way the project doesn’t have to end if someone is not able to continue working on it for any reason.
###A venue for artists### Add-Art will be an alternative venue for living artists to display their work. They will be paid if possible. This goal should not lead to Add-Art becoming another source of advertising.
##Non-Goals##
- Add-Art will never be a product. It will always be free and open source.
- Add-Art does not need to go on forever. Add-art’s survival is not more important than it’s goals. (If Add-Art can't meet it's goals, it can die and that’s ok)
- To display decorative art works, or to try to please everyone.
If you're interested in making something that uses this code, but is different than these goals, feel free. Just name it something else and follow the GPL license.
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