At this point, it might be moot. Too many people are assuming it's still a closed-source thing and will dismiss it.
Due to the closed source nature, every mojo announcement I see I think "whatever, next"
If the actual intent is to open-source, just do it, dump out whatever you have into a repo, call it 'beta'
It does matter. It already has a pretty active community and thousands of people who follow the development closely, however, most won't commit until the entire language is fully opened... including me.
Valuable technologies are not so easily dismissed