OPEN HYDRANT
Mobile Pages, Tools, Consumables
Through themed projects, Open Hydrant creates and inspires web pages, apps, events, art, and media to benefit and encourage a mobile society.
Contact OH!
To contribute to a project or to suggest a project, send a note or call.
Email: connect@openhydrant.com
Phone: 917-512-5064
Projects
Coffee or Beer
A blend of journalism, art, commercialism. Featuring a blog and web sites. Began Oct 12, 2011.
Project Goals
- Help assure that every merchant and seller of craft beer and fair-trade coffeee has a high-quality mobile website.
- Recognize - and interview - innovtive craftsmen and retailers of coffee and beer.
- Publish stories about Making the Big Decision: Coffee or Beer, per a given situation.
- Encourage and publish music and artwork inspired by coffee or beer.
- Produce games, quizzes, apps that help users decide coffee or beer.
Let Sister
A preparation and promotion tool for performers. Let Sister, the Set Lister, is an app that uses Twitter. Built on technology from The Bit Tracker 2000. Released Oct. 2011.
Project Goals
- Enable performers to quickly browse and manage their repertoires.
- Allow artists to share among themselves information re. shows, venues.
- Allow artists to generate set lists for gigs.
- Allow artists to easily promote gigs and share set lists with fans.
- Devise a way for venue directors and show producers to manage shows, rosters.