commit 3269a17517db2c99828908e49a18fdf17710de71 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Sun Jan 29 13:08:21 2017 -0800

Drop 'Ahmia - Hidden Service Search' project idea

We had a student that did this last year (Ismael Riahi). --- getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml | 66 -------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 66 deletions(-)

diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml index 035dcbe..6f1f3ea 100644 --- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml +++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml @@ -1123,72 +1123,6 @@ implementation. </ul> </li>

- <a id="ahmiaSearch"></a> - <li> - <b>Ahmia - Hidden Service Search</b> - <br> - Language: <i>Python, Django</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>Juha Nurmi (numes), George (asn)</i> - <br><br> - <p> - Ahmia is open-source search engine software for Tor hidden service deep - dark web sites. You can test the running search engine at ahmia.fi. For - more information see our <a - href="https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/ahmiafi%22%3Eblog post about - Ahmia's GSoC2014 development</a>. - </p> - - <p> - Ahmia is a working search engine that indexes, searches, and catalogs - content published on Tor Hidden Services. Furthermore, it is an environment - to share meaningful insights, statistics, insights, and news about the Tor - network itself. In this context, there is a lot of work to do. - </p> - - <p> - The Ahmia web service is written using the Django web framework. As a - result, the server-side language is Python. On the client-side, most of the - pages are plain HTML. There are some pages that require JavaScript, but the - search itself works without client-side JavaScript. - </p> - - <p> - There are several possible directions for this project, including... - </p> - - <ol> - <li>Improving the search results (very important)<br /> - <ul> - <li>Tweaking search algorithms</li> - <li>Adjust Elasticsearch</li> - <li>Enrich the data that is used to rank the search results</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Improving UX and UI (very important)<br /> - <ul> - <li>Showing relevant knowledge</li> - <li>Design the navigation and information architecture</li> - <li>HTML5, CSS and Django development</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Review code and infrastructure<br /> - <ul> - <li>Review code and fix bugs</li> - <li>Writing Django test cases</li> - <li>Linux configurations, automatizations</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Gather statistics over time and publish them<br /> - <ul> - <li>Gather different kind of stats about Hidden Services</li> - <li>Publish these stats using HTTP REST API</li> - <li>Using this API show meaningful tables, charts and visualizations</li> - </ul> - </li> - </ol> - </li> - <a id="ipHijacking"></a> <li> <b>IP hijacking detection for the Tor Network</b>