Many of my friends and myself enjoy performing at a variety of Open Mic events to experience different audiences, venues and locations. Therefore we need accurate and reliable information about towns we know and towns we've never been to. We need a resource that is vast but easily searchable to produce neatly formatted pages containing relevant results.
If you search the net for terms like "Open Mic Bristol" or "Open Mic night Brighton" there are a couple of big resources that pop up time and time again, these are fantastic rescources maintained by enthusiastic people and I hope to collate all this data and serve the wonderful open mic community. I aim to develop a user friendly resource with quality control built in.
The Main Principles
Data Age
Users can see how old the information is and make their own decision on how trustworthy they consider it.
Information that performers want
A phone number is nice but often it just gets a barman. If you want to gauge atmosphere you need videos, social network groups and pictures.
No confusing details
I have often been put off attending an event that is fortnightly through fear that I may arrive on a week-off. Therefore fortnightly events are flagged up as 'Caution' and users are recommended to contact the organiser.
Addresses and Maps
Distance is important and nobody likes getting lost. So I have utilised Google's brilliant Maps tool to provide users with the best possible location information.
How can you help?
If you like Open Mic Finder and want to support it there are two ways you can help.
1) Keep details accurate by reporting errors and submitting unlisted events.
Click Here to submit an event.
2) Link to it from your website, blog or forum.
Click Here for Links.