Having some technical oversight from the community in the form of a lightweight 'geek cabal'* seems like it might be quite important given other discussions about things like mailing lists, having to run a locally-hosted OTRS-type system for fundraising email, and funding of tool development (stuff like Wikidata, Commons upload tools for projects like GLAM).
If people are interested in getting involved with these kinds of things, and are prepared to make the commitment necessary to help us see some of these projects through, then great - please shout!
That would be much more helpful than 27-email threads about which individual bits of software everyone thinks our staff should use. ;-)
Chris