Things to keep in mind:
Slack is not the best place for finding updates (unless you are there for hours everyday).
Use it for chatting, meeting Synereo supporters, etc.
The best updates are posted on the blog (
http://blog.synereo.com/), and of course,
in the weekly hangouts themselves.
Persistent info also can be found at
https://discuss.synereo.com/.
There still is no firm date set yet, and there will not be for a while.
"Weeks" is still the best answer, because if it stretches out to many weeks, then that is still only a couple months.
We have pushed the release back a little longer.
The reason is that the starting point is being "bootstrapped", meaning being put together on the fly.
If the community or the devs think they can add another feature that will improve the network, they're going
to do that. There are bugs found when new software is brought online, and must be fixed. This is a process
that moves along in an emergent way, and defies prediction.
There is discussion going on about which blockchain will be used in the Beta version - this is nothing new either, it's just time to get that resolved.
The big news of the day is that Synereo was selected by NFX for an accelerator program that will help us bring in more investors, which will definitely help put more devs on the ground, and speed up the improvements that are being made.