[Apologies to those of you receiving multiple copies of this announcement; this will be the only meeting announcement cross-posted to multiple lists.] I write to invite you to the inaugural meeting of Code People on Feb 3, 2011, 9:30–11:00 a.m. at Walter Library room 402. If you plan to attend, *please RSVP* at http://z.umn.edu/2di so that we have some idea how many people are coming. Code People is a newly created collaborative group for University of Minnesota application developers to get together to network and share programming experiences, techniques and knowledge to strengthen our ability to code, and who have a strong desire to learn new technologies, standards and best practices to better our work and benefit the University community. Meeting topics will include programming languages and frameworks, mobile and web development, databases, security, scripting, and other related and evolving technologies. If you're interested in this new group, please join our listserv (details below). *Details* Time: 1st Thursday of every month, 9:30–11:00 a.m. Location: 402 Walter Library (unless announced otherwise) Listserv: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (subscribe at http://z.umn.edu/2dk) *Topics for February* * Introducing Code People, group direction, results of topics survey — Code People joint committee * Groovy on Grails — Aaron J. Zirbes