Help welcome (feel free to edit the task desc).
See T924 and T115409 for previous years' activities and venues.
Mentors to
* add themselves to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016#Contacting_Wikimedia_mentors
* add potential tasks to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/google-code-in-2016/
**Notifications sent:**
[X] GCI 2016 announcement on wikitech-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-October/086808.html (@aklapper)
[X] Email mentors and students of GSOC 2016 and Outreachy Round 12: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/16/wikimedia-gsoc/ (@srishakatux)
[X] Email Outreachy mentors and students from recent years: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects (@srishakatux)
[] Reach out to people who have either claimed or created an easy task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/609oZQR8EpOH/#R
[X] GCI students from last year: https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2016/01/28/wikimedia-google-code-in-2015/ (@srishakatux)
[X] GCI mentors from last year who may have been left out in all the above-listed steps: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015 (@srishakatux)
[] Email people left out in the steps listed above and whose names are on the list: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Possible_mentors