I am looking for people who would like work as contractors to solve archiving and computing-related problems as part of a larger project to preserve and organize the pre-slop web.
I have only a little time to manage people, so I am looking for those who work fairly autonomously and mostly have things set up already.
My problems are: web archiving capturing both DOM and responses, browser extensions for archiving and categorization, tracking derived data, filesystem software for managing petabytes (already exists in Rust), fixing annoyances and performance in Firefox and Chromium and extensions, packaging for NixOS, investigating which LLMs to use for categorizing data, text indexing with Elasticsearch or other software.
I have 18 petabytes right now and I can store as much data as you would like.