Bearing in mind this release will be "pre-Alpha" release!

I am setting my expectations that this release will be very, very buggy -e.g expect a lot of application crashes and minimal functioning apps (if there are any included).

The pertinent questions are:
How "open" this release be?
Will the full source code (minus closed components) be available?
Will the images and source be in a buildable state? (someone tried to build an image and failed - got sarky comments from some developers and help from others)

The development won't be considered open until someone from outside the project (e.g. not part of the "inner sanctum") can successfully build a bootable image.

Wait and see what happens in next few days.