Giving people the tools they need to share knowledge and advance open society through social software.

Introducing Prairie

Forget all those different username and password combinations once and for all with Prairie; our Internet identity server.

Prairie is a lightweight OpenID based Internet identity server. Instead of registering at every web site with different username and password combinations you use your identity server to log you in.

Video tour

Features

  • Simple profile webpage (Internet identity).
  • Install as a single user or a service to host many separate users.
  • Contact form.
  • DH-SHA1 support.
  • DH-SHA256 support.
  • OpenID 1.1 complient.
  • OpenID 2.0 complient.
  • Themed "skins" which can be easily downloaded and added.
  • Multi-lingual.
  • Free (GPL) software license (if we get 100 supporting messages).

A case study; Identity page of Tom Calthrop

One example of Prairie is the identity page of Tom Calthrop (maintainer of Prairie) and the founding director of Barnraiser.

The identity page is using an out of the box copy of Prairie.

Download

When we receive 100 positive comments to open source Prairie we will. It's simple, if you want Prairie to be set free then you and 99 other people need to give us some energy so why not add your comment to the list!

Try our demonstratation

You are welcome to try our demo. You can login by pressing the "manage" link (base of page) then using the email "spam@barnraiser.org" and the password of "demonstration".

Pairie barn history

Barn logoAlso known as the Midwest Barn, feeder or Western barn, the pairie barn is the iconic image of the American barn; a peaked roof above the hay loft. They were built primarily for livestock (and the hay to feed them). This type of barn was most common in the south-central and western United States during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Technical considerations

Roundhouse requires a web server running either Apache 1.3/2.x or IIS5/IIS6 with PHP5.x installed including GD library (Curl and BCMath if you want OpenID support).

For multiple instances you will require wildcard sub-domains.