Right now we are deliberately keeping the agenda for the first meetup loose. I want the meetups to be about what you are interested in so please post any topics of interest to the forum.
It would help me if everyone states what their aims are for attending/joining. I guess agendas work themselves out from then on in...
I want to learn more about data integration, what content is geo-tagged (and available) and others experiences with what local really means and how to solve problems with User interfaces and content discovery. When I lived in Scotland local was 30 miles, in London it was 2 miles, in Oxted it is 10 miles. When I visit my in laws in Canada it is 100 miles...
I am interested in building location-based experiences, esp. in how designers think about location and how they cope with patchy coverage and limited accuracy of the underlying technology and data. I am generally interested in user-centered development of distributed applications such as pervasive games.