The site
This site has no particular purpose and its existence is just a pure happenstance. It only reflects certain events and memories of the author. The site had its debut in the early 2000s, when a good friend of the author, Steve Linzel, donated the domain name nwsummit.com and offered to host the site on his server in his garage. Nowadays, the site is hosted somewhere in the cloud and has been redesigned to be mobile-device-friendly. It is built using the following technologies:
The author
Are you wondering who is the person behind this site? If you come to visit this site, you probably already know the author in person. However in case that's not true, below is his portrait, drawn in March 1994 by his then best friend Jérôme Lohez.

Anyway, the author likes to think he's a nowhere man, as described by the Beattles' song:
He's a real nowhere man.
Sitting in his nowhere land.
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
--The Beatles