Well i guess im only in club 10.. and since im not geting any beta's i guess i wont jump to 11... till new projects come out.. hopeing some show up soon

Well, looks like we'll have more beta's in the future. At this point, it is planned to rerun the type A and B again that has been run in the past month. This should include the type C from these as well. In addition to this, there should be another 400+ type A work units and their B/C that will need to be run. That is the information I know at this point. Things are subject to change, but more beta in the future with more work units.

Again no schedule on the beta, and numbers are subject to change without notice...(my general clause of don't hold me to these numbers just in case things do change) :)

thanks,
-Uplinger

Out of topic...

in my humble opinion, be part of a select badge clubs ever will be cool and a honnor.

I think that for many old WCG crunchers, be part of a more complete badge club (like club15, the top one by now...) was a querstion of lucky in many cases (was my case for example !).

When WCG started more than 5 years ago, and for a long time after, there aren't any kind of badges, just the metrics regarding results, time processed and points.

And there aren't any multiprocessors machines available in the Wintel world at that tinme, to do a lot of work each day.

And there aren't a BOINC agent very cool, which provides management and control of processing more than one task per machine at a time (probably someone will remember yet the headeakes and pains with UD agent issues running a task by time uploading and after it downloading a new one, and many times losing the work done almost at the end or something like that...)

So, the badges rules was introduced many time after the WCG start, and when it appear, many of old crunchers don't have computed time of processing or more resources to improve specifics projects to get the badges available at begining, specially the 3 hard ones (GC, HDC, HCMD). This 3 hard ones are a lack for many, and are a lack of more high levels for many other crunchers too, across WCG members.

Add to this 3 hard ones, project specifics for at least more one badge, the ACH which was distributed under some certain restrictions with bandwich due the download/upload requeriments.

And finally, add to this observations, that for a long time after badges was implemented, there aren't any criteria regarding badge levels associated with a specific time of processing to get specific levels in each badge. On the contrary, it is relatively new in the badge rules.

For sure, someone will remember more adds to insert here...

So, despite of the lucky of few people that selected almost by coincidence a specific project (like the hard ones), at its beginings, it happens in a time that many WCG crunchers, don't set the mind to pursue any kind of badge or forum specifics discussions about it... it kind of behavior happened many time after the badge rules start.

In fact I guess that dosen't matter which kind of badge club the colaborator belong...

I guess that any club type member is very important to us and for WCG projects, once without a lot of anonimous people that works in off mode, and without the badges pursuing daily fun running that we watch in the forum coments, WCG don't got the fantastic results in each project and its impressive power of processing running until now...

So, badges are very cool way to motivate colaborators here, and for sure we will have a lot of news in this topic in future years.

So, many kind of new clubs will rise, some with more badge numbers other with some specifics badges levels, and so on...

Keep crunching, and just for don't loss the subject that matter in this thread, I hope that Uplinger get speed up this planned one new Beta...

About medals, this made me remember about a trip I made in Budapest when it was still under the communist regime. It was back in 1982. We did a trip as students to visit the University, the Electrical Works of Ganz etc. We were in Budapest during the 1st of May which was a very big celebration. It was not military as it is the workers day.

What completely stunned me was the number of people in uniforms wearing each from 10 to 50 or more medals. Their side was covered with glittering medals of any kind.

I was told these were workers having received medals (in our world these are the equivalent of our stock options) as a reward for having worked like hell, or reached some objectives in production etc..
When the regime fell you could buy these medals for half a dollar in the street.
After the dotcom bubble burst, I imagine that many having been rewarded with mountains of stock options worth nothing any more could even not sell them in the street.