The developer meetup is organized by Blueswitch, a 10-year-old Web development firm with experience in Windows Mobile applications. The company has begun a new focus on mobile Web applications for the iPhone and now the Palm Pre.

So far, about 75 people have registered to attend the inaugural New York Palm Pre Software Developers Meetup. There are still openings for the 7pm meeting (more details )

Guest speaker will be Eric Marthinsen, a partner at Agile Commerce, a Lexington, Mass., development shop that created the for the Pre. The program lets Pre users check flight status information, receive updates on changes, and see the aircraft's in-flight progress, all in real-time.

Marthinsen was one of several early webOS developers about their experience with webOS and Palm's Mojo software development kit. The webOS consists of the Linux kernel married with an embedded open source Webkit engine, which is the basis for a number of popular mobile Web browsers. Webkit acts as the program execution environment: applications can be created with JavaScript, HTML (including HTML 5 features) and Cascading Style Sheets. The Mojo SDK provides a range of services and frameworks, and APIs to underlying features on the smartphone hardware itself.