Explore what your community could build.
FeaturesBUILD Building blocks your community can combine. Comparison tableCOMPARE How Bonfire differs from other community platforms. Case studiesSTORIES How communities are shaping Bonfire for their needs. About BonfireABOUT The project, principles, and people behind it. Try Bonfire at the campground ↗ Launch your BonfireChoose how much you want to run yourself.
Self-hostDIY Your infrastructure and some sysadmin comfort. Cooperative hostingHOST Your own space without a sysadmin job. Co-design with usWITH For communities, organisations and funders with specific needs. Compare all three routes → EcosystemFind people, answers, and tools around Bonfire.
ParticipateJOIN Contribute, collaborate, or help sustain the commons. FAQsASK Licensing, federation, privacy, and governance. DocumentationDOCS Setup guides and technical reference for hosts and builders. Browse the source code ↗ Blog Merch Get startedOpen Science Network
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What is included
Scholarly identity
Sign in with ORCID, Zenodo or your institution's own login. Publications, affiliations and research interests arrive from ORCID and OpenAlex rather than being retyped.
Citable discussions
Posts and discussions can take DOIs and become citable FAIR objects, preserved as part of the scholarly record instead of lost in a private thread.
Local control, global reach
Each community runs its own server. Your data stays under your control, and you connect globally without giving up local governance.
Metadata, automatically
Share a paper and watch it come alive: metadata, co-authors, datasets and related works. Colleagues join in from whatever platform they already use.
Modular by design
Add repository connectors, peer review workflows or research tools as your community finds it needs them.
