What we’re about
This is a Dublin-based group forming small, volunteer working teams to build practical civic technology in the public interest. Our current focus is on two closely connected pieces of work:
1. The Kindness Platform
A real, already-built volunteering and coordination platform with user profiles, communities, messaging, tasks, quests, and incentives. It works, but it’s rough. We’re looking to improve the design, usability, reliability, and overall product quality so it can function as a proper MVP in real-world use.
2. Public AI Dataset Infrastructure
Tooling and governance to allow communities, schools, and volunteers to build high-quality, ethically governed public datasets (images, audio, text) for areas like environment, farming, and energy. The focus is on data pipelines, annotation workflows, documentation, and infrastructure — not training large or frontier models.
These two areas are part of the same system. The Kindness Platform is how people participate and coordinate; the data infrastructure is one of the major public-good systems being built on top of it.
We’re looking for engineers, designers, DevOps, data scientists, and product-minded people who are interested in contributing small, realistic amounts of time to something concrete and useful. This is not a talk series or a networking group — meetups are intended to support hands-on collaboration and the formation of working groups.
The wider work sits within the Abundance Federation, a mission-locked civic initiative exploring how shared digital infrastructure can support communities and drive the cost of living down.
If you’re interested in helping improve real software, build solid foundations, and work with others who take a practical, grounded approach, you’re very welcome.
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