I'd have gotten around to putting the announcement on LAVA, honest.
As an FYI...I put the announcement up on ni.com a week or so before the software will be available for download to give people the opportunity to apply for the beta, gain access to the private message board and read all the cool announcements from the developers about the stuff that's in the upcoming version. Once the software is actually posted for download I put up an announcement on LAVA, inform NI marketing, etc. to bring in additional people.
As a further FYI...we accept
almost everyone into the beta. People who will be automatically excluded from participation are:
- People working for known competitors (you really don't want in the beta anyway since it creates a legal nightmare)
- People who provide obviously false information in the application
- People to whom the US government will not permit us to export - as a side note to this, the service we use to test this requires that we input western (basically English) characters so if you apply using other characters you will get an email from my assistant requesting that you provide the necessary info in a manner we can use to perform this task. If you give us an unreachable email we will not be able to contact you and you will not be accepted into the beta.
Having said all that...jgcode's post is correct and you can apply for the beta now.
Regards,
Robert