[tor-dev] GSoC - Search Engine for Hidden services

[George Kadianakis]

"Nurmi, Juha" <juha.nurmi at ahmia.fi> writes:

> Hi All,
>

Hello,

> Ahmia.fi interested in participating in GSoC.
>
> Ahmia.fi's back-end is designed by Kordex (Mikko Kortelainen) and I (Juha
> Nurmi) have built the front-end.
>
> In practise, I will apply as a student. Also, kordex might apply.
>

Be warned, that even though two people can apply for the same project,
I think that Tor has a restriction on the number of students it can
accept. Damian can correct me here if I'm wrong.

> Ahmia.fi is a HS search engine that needs improvements. At the moment, we
> are using YaCy in the back-end and have developed Django based front-end
> (Python).
>
> Kordex is a Customer Service Architect, CEO of the Fail-Safe IT solutions
> and software designer. I am a research, postgraduate student and university
> lecturer. I have a long work experience with web services.
>
> At the moment, ahmia.fi has integration to Tor2web and Globaleaks. We have
> hidden service online cheker, RESTful API for the resources, tested idea
> how hidden services could publish their information (
> https://ahmia.fi/documentation/descriptionProposal/) and a lot of good
> ideas. Unfortunately, we do not have any funding.
>

OK.

And what would you like to do over the summer so that:
a) Something useful and concrete comes out of only 3 months of work.
b) Your work will also be useful after the summer ends.

I would be interested to see some areas that you would like to work on
over the summer, and how that would change the ahmia.fi user experience.

> We would like to release the source code of ahmia.fi and develop our search
> engine in GSoC.
>

Yes, releasing the source code of ahmia.fi would be very useful in any
case. It would be great if you could do that.