About us

This is a Dublin-based group of volunteers building practical civic technology in the public interest. We meet to do hands-on work, not to network or attend talks.
Our current focus is two connected pieces of infrastructure:

1. The Kindness Platform A working volunteering and coordination platform — profiles, communities, messaging, tasks, quests, and incentives. It functions, but it's rough. We're improving the design, reliability, and overall product quality to get it to a proper MVP people can rely on.

2. Public AI Dataset Infrastructure Tooling and governance so that communities, schools, and volunteers can build high-quality, ethically governed public datasets (images, audio, text) in areas like agriculture, environment, and energy. The focus is data pipelines, annotation workflows, quality control, and documentation — not training frontier models.

These sit together: the platform is how people participate, and the data infrastructure is one of the first public-good systems being built on top of it. A small team of developers and data scientists has been working on both since early this year, and we're looking to grow.

We'd particularly welcome engineers, UX designers, DevOps, database people, data scientists, and product-minded contributors who can commit small, realistic amounts of time to something concrete. Senior people are very welcome. So are determined people earlier in their careers — on a project like this, follow-through matters as much as anything else.

The wider work sits within the Abundance Federation, a mission-locked civic initiative exploring how shared digital infrastructure can help bring the cost of essentials down over time. Everything we build is non-extractive and open in principle.

If you'd like to help improve real software, build solid foundations, and work with grounded, practical people, you're very welcome.