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The Code4Lib community is a group of computer programmers and library technologists who largely work for and with libraries. It started as a [http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/code4lib/ mailing list] in the fall of 2003 when a group of library programmers decided to create an overarching community agnostic towards any particular language or technology. See this [File[Media:Code4lib-prelist.pdf |email thread (PDF)]]. Soon after the mailing list was created the community decided to setup a channel on the Freenode network of an [http://code4lib.org/irc IRCchannel] named '''[irc://irc.freenode.net/code4lib #code4lib]''' (originally on [http://freenode.net/ freenode].Freenode, now on Libera).

In February of 2006 the first Code4Lib conference was held in Corvallis, Oregon, hosted by Oregon State University. Here is the [[Media:2006conf.pdf|official proposal]]. This initial Code4Lib conference was a hit, drawing over 80 attendees. The 2007 conference was held on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, GA attracting about 150 attendees. A list of Code4Lib conferences are available on the [http://code4lib.org/conference community website].