This is a one-time announcement regarding the creation of a local special interest group serving the Texas/Oklahoma/New Mexico area. The goals of this group are: - Bring together researchers, students, and practitioners - Provide a local forum for sharing research and teaching ideas - Cover topics such as programming languages, theorem proving, formal methods, etc To join this group, please sign up at the mailing list link available at: http://resource-aware.org/twiki/bin/view/ProgrammingLanguages/MEPLS All future announcements relating to MEPLS will be made on this mailing list. After signing up, please take a look at the (brief) currently outline for the format of the next meeting. If you have any comments about the plans, please email taha @ rice.edu.