commit 1f5eec9375320854904e1bf8360fac828823605c Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Tue Jan 31 08:52:35 2017 -0800

Add Ahmia project idea

GSoC project idea from Juha Nurmi. --- getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)

diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml index 37f6879..64b30b1 100644 --- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml +++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml @@ -1114,6 +1114,68 @@ ideas. </p> </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> + <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>Automate blacklisting (very important)<br /> + <ul> + <li>Fetch a list of child abuse media sites</li> + <li>Remove these sites from the search results</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>Add hidden services funtion (very important)<br /> + <ul> + <li>You can add onions using HTML form</li> + <li>Call the crawler immidiately when a new site is added</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>Elasticsearch<br /> + <ul> + <li>Must be updated to 5.X.X sooner or later</li> + <li>Adjust the settings</li> + <li>Automatically remove data older than, for instance, 90 days</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>Maintainance<br /> + <ul> + <li>Update all software dependencies</li> + <li>Automate crash recovery for Tor, Elasticsearch and crawler</li> + </ul> + </li> + </ol> + </li> + <!-- <a id=""></a> <li>