Aruna Maurya aruna.maurya12@gmail.com writes:

[ text/plain ] Hey!

I was going through the Tor Volunteer page and came across the Anonymous local count statistics project. As a student it would be a great starting point and an even bigger opportunity to get a chance to collaborate and learn in the process.

I would like to contribute to it, and would love to start as soon as possible. It would be great if someone could guide me through.

Hello Aruna,

thanks for reaching out.

I also find this project interesting. I'd like to help you but my time is quite limited lately.

What would you like guidance with?

With regards to design, I suggest you take a look at the last comments of this trac ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7532#comment:22 Particularly it seems like the PCSA algorithm might be a reasonable way forward.

With regards to coding, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the Tor codebase. Some specific places to look at would be the way that Tor currently counts users. For example, see geoip_note_client_seen() and its callers, for when bridges register new clients to their stats subsystem. Also check geoip_format_bridge_stats() for when bridges finally report those stats.

Let us know if you have any specific questions!

Cheers!