Have you done things that are out of your regular nature? Well, that is what I did yesterday. I attended the inaugural OpenBC meet in Chennai. I don’t go out of my way to meet people. All acquaintances and friends (including those who hate me) are in a way or the other connected in the regular walk of life – college mates, office colleagues, friends of my sister and so on. Well, I joined OpenBC because one of my Belgian friend invited me to join. I wasn’t an active participant of the forum. However, when I was invited to their inaugural meet in Chennai, I thought to myself, “Well, let me go and see”. The meet was in the Presidency Club, Egmore. Though the meet was between 20h00 – 23h00, I stayed only until 21h30. But in that time, I did meet lots of interesting people – an antique bike collector, a movie producer for NGOs, a real-estate and a metal scrap business men and someone involved in establishing knowledge centers across the state (This guy studied in IIT, Chennai and then did a PG in the US. But didn’t like to be in the US and returned. You wouldn’t tell that he is a ‘US return’. He was so casual and down-to-earth. Pity, I didn’t get more time to interact with him). It was an fascinating evening talking to lots of people from industries other than software. Though I didn’t stay for the entire meet (I get restless after an hour or two), I did enjoy and I’ve decided to go for their upcoming meets, if informed.