FYI, I have downloaded all of BRL-CAD’s 2017 GCI task data and added them to
our queue, presently located at http://brlcad.org/gci/data/
<http://brlcad.org/gci/data/>
Cheers!
Sean
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com>
> Subject: [GCI-mentors] Fwd: GCI 2017: Contest site will be archives April 4th
> - last chance to retrieve task data
> Date: April 3, 2018 at 4:53:45 PM EDT
> To: 'Stephanie Taylor' via Google Code-in Mentors
> <gci-ment...@googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Just a reminder, if you want to get a backup of your GCI data, there’s a
> python script to help with that at https://github.com/brlcad/gciquotient/
> <https://github.com/brlcad/gciquotient/>
>
> CAUTION! Google’s infrastructure has (what seems like) black magic
> throttling that gets progressively more aggressive as you send more queries,
> sometimes resulting in 24hr waits. The script tries to avoid triggering
> wrath by sleeping between calls for a configurable amount of time (default
> 1s), but that means you might need to make sure you kick it off ASAP if you
> have a lot of instance data. Still might take hours to download all files.
> Make sure you coordinate amongst your mentors in case the throttling is
> per-org.
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
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