Applied! Thanks for the opportunity.
Me too!
To keep everybody in the loop: we have now had more than 850 applications to join the beta testing team, and more continue to come in all the time. I anticipate that the final size of the team might be around 150 testers, so (doing a quick bit of mental arithmetic) there is less than a 20% chance of any individual application being accepted.
We are both amazed and humbled by the level of response to our call for testers. I have been reading the applications and I am deeply appreciative of the willingness expressed by so many musicians to play a part in the development of our application, and I am sorry that relatively few of you will be able to do so within the confines of the formal beta testing team.
This is the best symptom of future success
Just applied for the beta testing team as well. Here’s hoping!
I’ve already submitted my form and forgot to write something in the: “why should I be considered”. Is there any way to add information there or is it too late (maybe the form has already been reviewed…
Same here (obviously)… 
Is the status on our beta portal going to change from Awaiting Approval to something else, if we’re not approved?
So that we don’t keep impatiently awaiting news if there aren’t any coming our way? 
I don’t know about the status label, but Daniel did say in the very first post in this thread: “…you will only hear from us if your application to join the team is successful.”
So I think there’s little point in fretting about the whole thing. You know your chances are less than 20% of being accepted and I imagine those chances are diminishing by the minute. I don’t know if there’s a cut-off point, but I assume that will happen eventually.
Best to get on with life!
It’s not a raffle. They’ll need testers with a variety of hardware and operating systems. Being “known” in the community also may or may not help!
Laurence, my thoughts exactly… In addition to the hardware and operating systems, I’d imagine they’d be looking into a diverse range of users as well, (from strictly publishers to composers/arrangers, or those of us who do it all) in order to get feedback from people with certain specific uses for the application.
Anyway, no email yet, and since it’s the end of the week, I’m gonna assume I wasn’t lucky. Oh well… Q4 isn’t that far away anyway
Some would say the week ends on Friday. Some on Sunday. Anyway, we’re talking about a time estimate from a software team. get real!
Yup, in the environment I work in, the real-life definition of “complete by the end of the year” usually meant “something might get released before the middle of February, but that’s not a cast-iron guarantee”. 
I know this is dumb, but I also applied very enthusiastically and then realized I didn’t actually include any of my actual qualifications (publishing companies I worked for, Paul Revere Award, that sort of thing). Is there some way to add more info? I think the instruction to be brief messed with my head!
Respectfully,
Jeff
To date we have approved only a few dozen beta testers out of the now more than 950 applications we have received, both to give ourselves a chance of responding in a timely fashion to the feedback produced (of which there has in just a few days already been an enormous amount) and also making sure that the build basically installs and runs on a variety of machines.
I have also been away for a few days, and so my task of continuing to sift through the pile of applications has had to take a back seat to responding to beta tester feedback in my few stolen hours late at night. I expect to approve another few dozen beta testers in the next few days.
In the meantime, I will ask Ben (who wrote the beta application web application) whether or not he could make it possible to revise your application.
Thanks Daniel, great to hear that there is still the chance to get approved! Looking forward to it and I keep my fingers crossed!
Any News?
Hi,
I’d like to know whether the applications approval step has finished or now.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry, I have been away on holiday this week and in the stolen hours I have been working, I’ve been dealing with incoming beta feedback rather than adding more beta testers.
We expect to issue a third beta build in the next week or so, and I would expect to bring on another couple of dozen testers when that build is released.
However, we do now have more than 120 active beta testers, so I would guess that we will approve perhaps up to 50 or so more. I’m afraid many hundreds of you who applied will end up disappointed, and I’m very sorry about that. We remain incredibly grateful and humbled that so many people are willing to give up their time to help us iron out the bugs in Dorico before release.
Awaiting approval