This document summarizes the history and plans of the Odoo Community Association (OCA). It discusses the OCA's mission to promote collaborative development of the Odoo platform. The OCA aims to improve module quality, visibility, and support. It also plans to provide resources to projects and be involved in Odoo roadmap and release development. Upcoming plans include migrating projects to GitHub, setting processes for accepting modules, and collaborating on the Odoo 9.0 version through code sprints and early reviews.

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!
Follow us :
Twitter : @OdooCommunity
Website : odoo-community.org