As much as possible, yes -- my employer has only recently gotten into sponsoring FOSS, so I have to do a lot of comforting around the, "but what if someone else takes this and copies us" question. Which is fair: They (still) don't teach FOSS community balancing in MBA school. In fact, I just made the term 'community balancing' up, but only because we both know there should be one, and isn't.
Will you be sharing your development experiences somewhere? It seems there is less info out there compared to, say, Mongo.