Finding local events is indeed an important aspect. Integrating mapping would also be great!

Thanks for the heads up on this guys. We'll try to include more functionality in the Events but as most of you know, Rome wasn't built in a day so we might need to sacrifice some features out for time

+1 searchable locations

Thanks for the heads up on this, noobster

Keep working to your initial plans for a release with events and follow with location-based searching as you can. When it is available it will certainly add value for community members who want to drive traffic to events!

Thanks Eileen