Help welcome (feel free to edit the task desc).
See T924 and T115409 for previous years' activities and venues.
== Notifications sent: ==
Individual:
[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)
[X] Reach out to people who have either claimed or created an easy task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/609oZQR8EpOH/#R (@srishakatux )
[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
Mailing lists:
[X] Initial announcement on wikitech-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-October/086808.html (@aklapper)
[X] Second announcement on wikitech-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086958.html (@aklapper)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2016-November/004749.html (@aklapper)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/huggle/2016-November/000160.html (Petr)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2016-November/002520.html (@aklapper)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/2016-November/009630.html (@aklapper)
[X] https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/mailman/message/35476910/ (@aklapper)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2016-November/001290.html (@aklapper)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2016-November/001090.html (@aklapper)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-November/009929.html (@aklapper)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2016-November/005497.html (@aklapper)
[ ] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2016-November/thread.html (posted, waiting for moderation) (@aklapper)
[X] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-November/010412.html (@aklapper)
On-wiki venues:
[X] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Teylykp9lc07dg9r on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:TemplateData (@aklapper)
[X] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3ALua&type=revision&diff=748501445&oldid=746392208 (@aklapper)
[X] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28technical%29&type=revision&diff=748502209&oldid=748501650 (@aklapper)
[X] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons%3AVillage_pump&type=revision&diff=212556090&oldid=212545639 (@aklapper)
[X] Did not post to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Gadget_kitchen - seems to be dead. (@aklapper)