About us

Our mission is to provide an open network for all members of the University of Minnesota tech community to share tools and practices to solve problems. We meet monthly to offer presentations and facilitate discussions. We also host trainings and social events.

Who's behind this

The goals and activities of the Code-People group are managed by a small rotating group of programmers from different IT departments across campus. We take turns planning, facilitating, contacting speakers, and developing presentations we hope the University programming community will find interesting and useful. Given that our broader goal is to foster software collaboration, we hope to gradually expand these responsibilities as opportunities arise. Currently, we are:

You can reach out to the steering committee by emailing code-people-committee@umn.edu

Get involved!

We gather on the first Thursday of every month, typically in Walter 402 from 9:30-11:00. If you can't make it but want to tune-in, we broadcast meetings in real-time with Zoom.

We discuss questions & topics relating to software development on a mailing list. Visit the Code People Google Group to join the code-people@umn.edu mailing list.

We are constantly looking for speakers and topic ideas for technical talks. Here is information on how to request a talk!