Thanks for your inputs Srikanth. :)

Outreach is very tough, I agree with.  Globally, we have about 1 lakh editors from a reader base of about 500m.  That's works out to roughly 0.02%!  It takes a lot of hard work to try and identify editors.  In an outreach session, if we get 1 regular editor from a group of 25, that's 4%. The work that I'm proposing is to see what we can do to try and improve this because volunteer time is limited.  For instance, are there any types of audiences that will make volunteer outreach efforts more productive?  Are there ways that we can conduct sessions that will improve the chances of getting new editors? Are there things we can do after workshops to encourage and support newbies to become regular editors.  

Also, there are several examples of outreach efforts resulting in building communities.  Odia is a prime example.  They're still small but they've reached where they are now through a series of outreach efforts.  They're also continuing their outreach efforts.

Nitika