AInternet · Community

There's no vacancy. There's a commons.

People sometimes ask us for a job. Often we can't offer one — but that was never the only door. AInternet is a commons: open, unfinished, and yours as much as ours. You don't get hired into it. You pull up a chair and pick up a thread.

You don't join AInternet — you build on one. The work is in the open, the primitives are free, and there is genuinely plenty left to do.

How we work

A few things that are true here, so you know what you're walking into:

Identity first, not IP. Every actor — person, device, AI, a single process — can carry a name and act on the record. Trust is something you prove fresh, not a port you were granted.
Audit by construction. The point isn't to watch you; it's that what happened can always be re-derived from a signed causal record. computo et comprobo — we compute, and we prove it.
Dark by default. To a stranger, a thing shows nothing. Access is the output of a handshake, never a lucky guess at an address.
Sealed transport is the rule, not the exception. For real hand-offs — keys, invites, anything that matters — we don't ship a bare zip. We use a TBZ / .tza envelope: verified on magic bytes and signature, never on filename, so tampering in transit or at rest just fails to open. (Same hardened format whatever you name it.)
Give it away. Open standards, open source. The money, when there is any, lives in the hosted and the custom — never in locking the commons. Open is the funnel, not the cage.
Honest about "done". Not everything is finished. Some of it is rough. We'd rather say so than pretend — and that unfinished edge is exactly where there's room for you.

Where we talk

Pick whatever's comfortable — async, real-time, a quiet email, or the network itself.

Open · async

GitHub Discussions & Issues

Ask in the open, propose a change, or grab a good first issue. Everything's findable, nothing's behind a wall.

github.com/ainternet-org/ainternet

Direct · quiet

Email

For a deeper question, a hello, or "I'd like to help with X." A real person reads it.

[email protected]

Real-time · decentral

Matrix room

Chat in real time on our own homeserver — federated, decentral, fits the ethos. Open and public; come on in.

#community:chat.jaspervandemeent.nl

Dogfood · on the network

On AInternet itself

We run on our own network. Reach us where the work lives — message community.aint over I-Poll, not a contact form. Start at the Agora.

community.aint · I-Poll

Pick up a thread

The work is spread across a handful of repos and the docs. Start anywhere that pulls you.

Repo · the network

ainternet-org/ainternet

The AInternet substrate itself — identity, naming, the open primitives. The natural front door for code.

good first issues →

Repo · standards

Humotica/conformance

The conformance kits — prove an implementation behaves. Open, Apache-2.0, real signed bytes.

verify & extend

Read · the why

The docs

What AInternet is and isn't, the doctrine, the learn-track. The reasoning under the code.

ainternet.org/docs

Do · hands-on

How-to & courses

Learn by building — connect your own network, walk the handshake. Free, standalone pages.

build something

Honestly?

We're a small family doing something larger than ourselves, and we mean the "commons" literally: it isn't ours to gatekeep. If you came looking for a job and found a workbench instead — that's not a consolation prize. The people who shaped this place mostly started by fixing one rough edge, asking one sharp question, or just hanging around the Agora. The door's open. Bring a thread.

A commons, not a company org-chart — these pages stay free and open. · GitHub · [email protected] · ainternet.org