[brlcad-devel] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] Fwd: GCI 2017: Contest site will be archives April 4th - last chance to retrieve task data

[Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...>]

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


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> From: Christopher Sean Morrison <br...@ma...>
> 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...@go...>
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> 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