What's the OCA, what are our goals ? Why working with OCA ? How it's working, how to contribute ? Last update from the board and review of what we achieved so far - Joël Grand-Guillaume -

1. Odoo Community
Association
(OCA)
December, 2014
Italy Odoo Community Days, Rome

2. AGENDA
● Introduction & history
● What's the OCA, what are our goals ?
○ OCA Mission
○ OCA governance
○ OCA projects
● Why working with OCA ?
● How it's working, how to contribute ?
● Last update from the board and review of what we achieved so far.
○ Short-term planning
○ Mid-term planning

3. We can go on working like this...

4. … or start working like this!

5. ● OCA created in 2013
● Founder companies:
○ Camptocamp, Switzerland / France / Austria
○ Akretion, France / Brazil
○ Vauxoo, Mexico
○ Savoir-faire Linux, Canada / France
○ Therp, Netherland
○ Elico Corp, China
History

6. OCA’s objectives
● Coordinate and organize collaborative work => reduce
similar/redundant developments
● Improve the partnership with Odoo SA => unified voice
● Promote the use of the Odoo solution
● Facilitate synergies, collaborations and fundraising efforts
● Increase the quality of community contributions
● Provide a partner-independent legal entity to protect intellectual
properties
● Provide resources for all OCA’s projects (infrastructure, funding,
legal support)

7. OCA’s governance
Members
Delegates
Board
Projects
Steering
Committee
Projects
Steering
Committee
Projects
Steering
Committee
Projects
Steering
Committee
(PSC)
Projects
Steering
Committee
(PSC)
Projects
Steering
Committee
Projects
Steering
Committee
Projects
Steering
Committee

8. Members
● Any physical person who accepts the OCA’s bylaws, pays the
membership fees and signs the CLA
● Contribute to the OCA resources
● Can be in charge of an OCA project steering committee
● Member newsletters
● Membership fees: EUR 50.-/year
● At this time, more than 200 members

9. Delegates
● OCA Members who have the voting rights at the Delegate
Assembly.
● Can elect new Delegate & Board Members
● Prevent an hostile takeover from an external company
● At this time, 57 delegates

10. Board
● Executive entity of the OCA
● 7 founders:
○ Luc Maurer, Camptocamp
○ Joël Grand-Guillaume, Camptocamp (President)
○ Sébastien Beau, Akretion
○ Nhomar Hernandez, Vauxoo (Secretary)
○ Maxime Chambreuil, Savoir-faire Linux (Vice-President)
○ Stefan Rhijnhart, Therp (Treasurer)
○ Éric Caudal, Elico Corp
● 2 new members since last Delegate Assembly (June 5, 2014)
○ Alexandre Fayolle, Camptocamp
○ Graeme Gellatly, Openforsmallbusiness.co.nz

11. OCA’s projects
● Project Steering Committee Teams (PSC)
○ Team which is responsible of 1 or more projects
○ Completely autonome on their projects
○ 1 team leader
○ Localization could be a PSC
● PSC Team leader
○ Must be OCA member
○ Decide who is member of the team
○ Control that all contributors have signed the CLA
○ Should communicate and report to OCA Board
● OCA Community Maintainers
○ Include in all PSC Teams
○ Elected by current Community Maintainers (Meritocracy principle)

12. OCA’s projects
Visit www.odoo-community-org to have the listing of all OCA’s projects
and to take part in them.

13. ● A legal document signed by the contributor to waive the copyright of
his/her code to the OCA
● Thanks to the CLA, the code of all OCA’s projects is owned by the OCA
● Guarantees the long-term life of the OCA’s projects
● All contributors must sign the CLA
● 2 CLA types:
○ Entity CLA (ECLA): to be signed by any company having employees working on OCA’s
projects
○ Individual CLA (ICLA): to be signed by all contributors (OCA members or not)
● More info here: www.odoo-community.org
Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

14. 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-independent 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)

15. Do you want to join the OCA?
Go to: www.odoo-community.org
Via OCA E-shop

16. Achievements
● Internal processes & Operations
● OCA website
● Migration of the community work from Launchpad to GitHub
● Continuous Integration Server & Automated tests
● Code Sprints
● Collaboration with Odoo
○ Discussion with Odoo SA
○ New version 9.0 : Accounting workshop

17. Mid/long-term planning
● Provide a better quality
○ Split contributions in 3 levels:
■ Community levels
■ Incubator for candidate modules
■ OCA Module Certified (docs, PEP8, migrations assurance for the future)
○ Bring clear rules that define a OCA certified module
● Improve the collaboration with Odoo SA
○ Be involved in the devs of the next releases
○ Communicate the roadmap
● Better docs and processes
○ Share knowledge between contributors
○ Define clear processes (suggest ideas, collaborate on devs, etc.)

18. Stay Tuned
● @OdooCommunity on Twitter
● http://odoo-community.org

19. Thank you for your time!
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Website: www.odoo-community.org