"Nurmi, Juha" juha.nurmi@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.