Open Show is a powerful system of show-control technology. It provides open-source software, hardware and event services to create dazzling lighting, sound and special effects affordable for artists and performances of every genre. "One of the ways that traditionally successful professional acts stand out is they have behind them teams of people and tens of thousands of dollars of technology lighting them, handling their sound and making sure that it all goes on at the same time," says Scott Abbott, Open Show founder. “Open Show provides some of that higher-end technology in an affordable package to all artists so that they may stand out wherever they may be. ... The technology that forms the basis of Open Show’s platform is smaller than a postage stamp but is as powerful as the mainframe computers that ran the original Disneyland and filled entire rooms. With the right software, which is what Open Show is, that technology can be given to anyone."