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Re: **FRC EMAIL**/Announcing Beta Test Teams

A couple of thoughts:
This year Beta test teams won't have much to test in the way of new hardware, and will be mostly concerned with making sure new and existing libraries work appropriately. I was a bit disappointed with the fact that FRC expects teams to recycle the cRIO--while understandable because of its enormous cost, it will incapacitate older robots which veteran teams like to maintain for demonstration purposes.

Also, unlike last year's beta test, this year the Java Beta test involves software that is entirely opensource, and can actually be acquired by anyone at this point in time, should you know where to look. Sure they are prerelease, but I can confirm that they work.
At the very least having the documentation available to all teams as it is(once again, loook around carefully--its easier to find than the source), should give everyone interested in using java plenty of opportunity to train on the system.
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