The papers in this dialogue help develop evaluation as a field (both in South Asia and other regions). What comes through in all of the papers is both humility of where evaluation is as a field and imagination and ambition of where evaluators could be in the near future. Reading the papers in this forum makes them enthusiastic about being evaluators. The papers are a testament to the need for ambition about the field--it is probably time to move beyond narrow debates on projects and program evaluation to larger questions of how evaluations can contribute toward development and perhaps more generally social betterment. The papers collectively focus on the importance of learning from prior capacity building experiments and adventures. The papers in this forum serve to celebrate the tremendous opportunities that exist in South Asia to translate this aspiration into "real capacity" that serves the goals of development and social betterment. The authors' view is that this task of translating the vision into practice will take focused ambition, a culture of learning, and an openness to create multiple systems of feedback in learning between the West and South Asia. They summarize and reinforce how the many points in these papers address the "evaluation gap" discussed by Carden. (Contains 6 notes.)