Monthly OCA Open Lives
Since May 2024, our Executive Director has organized a monthly live session open to anyone curious about the Odoo Community Association. The goal? Share ideas about the future of the OCA, ask questions about OCA processes and governance, exchange knowledge and practices related to our common ecosystem around Odoo.
Each time, a dozen or so participants have attended the meeting, all being happy to join in the discussion. Several participants have even come back a second time, which was unexpected and really a good sign. It is heartwarming to see that our community is present in the whole world: we’ve had people from Japan, India, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Morocco, Nigeria, Argentina, Bolivia and Canada! Each session we try to offer a different time and day to allow more people from around the globe to participate.
It seems that the OCA contributors, members and sponsors want to get in touch and share their concerns and ideas synchronously, in addition to the usual asynchronous communication through PR’s on Github, emails on the contributors mailing list or on our Discord server.
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Hot and recurring topics
Here are some tips shared by the participants:
use Odoo code search
check the “sets of modules” content built by the OCA functional working group (not available on our website yet but will be soon)
As expected, we also discussed artificial intelligence. A contributor has made a prototype using Open AI to find an OCA module based on a chat bot revealing the business need: https://twitter.com/cetmix_team/status/1800211122089582862
Subscribing to this dedicated issue might be a good idea. Example here:
During the sessions, we also discussed the idea of having a bot sharing the news on the OCA website. This could be enhanced with the organization of a webinar by the author of the migrated module in order to promote the OCA modules and its contributors.
Some people mentioned that AI could be a possible help to create good documentation for the OCA.
However, it is probable that many first PRs are not compliant with the OCA guidelines and this could explain the delays (the contributor doesn’t come back because they have moved on to another project in the meantime).
Another thing to keep in mind: it is very appreciated that new contributors asking for reviews review other’s PRs. Asking for a review could be considered as asking for a gift from someone.
We will certainly discuss this topic during our next OCA Days 2024 on the 30th September and 1st October in Liège. You can register here to attend the event.
