Longer than six minutes, which is the amount of time you gave people to reply to this message.
It costs $ to get into the program.
good
Could be up to a week if the volume of applications skyrockets
I am in the same position -- wanted to try my hand at some programming, but getting 3.0 would be icing on the cake.
However, I'm on an unlocked iPhone 3G, so come to think of it, I probably can't get 3.0 without losing the unlock. At least, until the Dev Team comes up with a way to safely upgrade without altering the baseband. Do they ever update pwnage tool for betas like this? I don't recall ever seeing it.