Today marks the start of the fourth annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which is "an exclusive, invitation-only summit gathering core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations for plenary sessions and workgroup meetings to meet face-to-face to tackle and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today".
By pure chance I coincided with an astonishing summit gathering to honour the Feast of the prophet Elijah.
But Zimbabweans will no doubt be cheered to know that the leaders of southern Africa, gathering for a summit last week, wished elections next year to be free and fair.
The White House was well aware that if Mr. Obama did not address it head on, the issue would overwhelm the rest of the summit gathering.
The next day, he was to fly to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, where some twenty Latin-American leaders were gathering for a summit, which would address the crisis.
Even as they were meeting on the outskirts of a world economic summit gathering here in Mexico, tough talks on Iran's nuclear program were under way in Moscow.
The "red shirts" are defying the government's decree of a "severe emergency situation," including a ban on blocking any traffic, imposed in Bangkok on Sunday, a day after protesters breached security and entered a hotel complex where Asian leaders were gathering for a summit meeting, causing the talks to be canceled.
But it is still a very mini-summit, gathering up only four of the Union's 25 current and future members.
There was nothing unusual in the first gathering, a summit of liberation movements from across southern Africa, or in its strident populist rhetoric.
It projects an image of Africa with its hand out.' So while the world was being entertained and encouraged to act by the Live8 concerts and politicians at the G8 summit are gathering to carve up Africa again, Africans will mostly be getting on with their daily lives.
