Hi Pine, We haven't articulated specific and measurable benefits: that's why you haven't gotten an answer to your question. That's because the Narrowing Focus exercise is not a one-off immediate-term event: it's a longer-term decision which will have multiple implications in this year and in future years. The Board approved the general principle: that narrowing focus would benefit the organization, which had been spread too thinly. But, the precise implications won't be known until the process begins to play out. For example, we've made a decision to outsource some of the WMF work associated with Wikimania, but until we define the terms of the outsourcing, we can't know what the exact implications will be. (Because we don't know what it will cost, or what work the contractor/consultant will be able to do. We *will* know those things in future, and I could make educated guesses about them now, but we can't know with certainty until we run an RFP process or similar.) Upshot: this is a long-term-focused decision, and it'll take a while for the implications to begin to play out. I've told the Board we shouldn't expect to see too much in the way of benefits in 2012-13 (the current fiscal year) because there will be work required to execute the various components of it, which will offset whatever gain we might otherwise have seen this year. We may see a little pay-off this year, but mostly it will start to happen in 2023-14. Thanks, Sue On Dec 2, 2012 3:56 PM, "ENWP Pine" <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote: