Short comment.

@Steve Clay, you wrote:

"Elgg store would reduce that risk (..), but again it comes down to time resources"

I think introducing a store is not a problem of writing a script. We could set up a high quality, well tested store script for elgg.org in a matter of a few days. Running store shouldn't be a problem as well  as it could be self sustained (you only need a good TOS). I think mostly influence of store on how elgg.org is perceived and used is a problem.

Disclaimer: I don't want to participate in a whole discussion about influence of Elgg Store on the community, I'm tired of it and in my opinion Brett is already convinced to his point of view, which won't change.

So much excitement!

I appreciate everyone's desire to see this community do well. The reason I haven't been as involved is multi-facted, but I'll say I have a growing family (2nd son is on his way!) and very little spare time -- what I have is spent developing for the Elgg sites I manage. Currently I'm working on getting AngularJS + RequireJS going inside Elgg to make the UI a little slicker. This also has a nice side effect of forcing me to implement a really nice JSON API. Will release a plugin if possible after launch.