The Future of the OCA, Odoo Community Association

1. The Future of the OCA,
The Odoo Community
Association
June the 4th, 2014

2. SPEAKERS
● Maxime Chambreuil, Savoir-faire Linux
● Joël Grand-Guillaume, Camptocamp

3. AGENDA
● History
● OCA Mission
● Why OCA ?
● How ?
● Delegate Assembly
● Midterm planning
● Next year planning

4. HISTORY
● OCA created in 2013
● Founder team:
○ Luc Maurer, Camptocamp
○ Joël Grand-Guillaume, Camptocamp
○ Sébastien Beau, Akretion
○ Nhomar Hernandez, Vauxoo
○ Maxime Chambreuil, Savoir-faire Linux
○ Stefan Rijnhart, Therp
○ Éric Caudal, Elico Corp

5. OCA Mission
● Help and promote the collaborative development of Odoo
● Encourage the development of Odoo and its features while
coordinating and organizing the collaborative work on the software
● Assist the community while defending its interests and the
sustainability of its developments
● Promote the use of the Odoo solution
● Facilitate synergies, collaborations and fund raising efforts
● Actively collaborate on the definition of the roadmaps of new
versions of the tool and their implementation.

6. Why OCA ?
● Increase quality of community modules
● Improve visibility of projects and modules
● Ensure long term support of modules
● Reduce similar/redundant development
● Provide a partner-independant legal entity to protect intellectual
properties
● Provide a unified voice to discuss with Odoo SA
● Provide resources for OCA’s projects (infrastructure, funding, legal
support)

7. How ?
● 110 Members
○ Register at http://goo.gl/IlD3Fg
● 59 Delegate Members
○ Selected by the current Delegate Members (founders) among the members
○ Additional new seats every year
● 9 Board Members
○ 7 founder members
○ 2 new board members
○ Elected by charter members for 1 year at the Delegate Assembly

8. DELEGATE ASSEMBLY
● Tomorrow June 5th @ 17:50, same room
● Open to everyone
● Agenda
○ Introduction
○ Approval of the budget
○ Results of 2 Board members election
○ Election of auditor
○ Next steps
○ Open Discussion until 19:00

9. Midterm planning
● Provide a better quality
○ Split contributions within 3 levels:
■ Commnuity levels
■ Incubator for candidate modules
■ OCA Module Certified (docs, PEP8, migrations insurance for the future)
○ Bring clear rules that define a OCA certified module
● Improve Odoo collaboration
○ Be involved in the next release devs
○ Communicate roadmap
● Better docs and processes
○ Share knowledge between contributors
○ Define clear processes (suggest idea, collaborate on devs, …)
● Setup project teams / leaders and provide objectives

10. Next year planning
● Migration of the Community work from Launchpad to Github
○ Migrate projects and teams
○ Provide a continuous integration server
● Operations
○ Adoption of processes and rules to accept or reject projects and maintainers
● Code Sprints
○ Topic to be defined
● Collaboration with Odoo on the next 9.0 version
○ Finance the collaboration
○ Provide reviews at early stage of developments

11. Stay tuned
● @OdooCommunity on Twitter
● http://odoo-community-association.org

12. Thank you for your
participation!
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Twitter : @OdooCommunity
Website : odoo-community.org