https://media.opendigital.info/videos/watch/a2faa92b-1e04-423b-a38e-177706a8928f Rebecca Gellatly, General Secretary and Events Manager at the OCA, shares her perspective on the association's administrative backbone and the community it serves. Recorded at Odoo Experience 2025, the conversation covers the origin of the OCA in 2013, how the organisation has grown from a board-led volunteer effort to an executive team with dedicated roles, the ongoing challenges of funding a not-for-profit that gives its work away, and why code review and collaboration matter as much as code contribution itself. Topics covered: Origin of the OCA in 2013: integrators realising they were all building the same community modules, What OCA stands for - Odoo Community Association - and Rebecca's view of it as "the community around the community", How modules bridge the functionality gap between community and enterprise versions, Rebecca joining via RFQ in 2018 to handle administration the board had been doing themselves, Growth of the executive team: Rebecca, Virginie (executive director), Julie (content and training), Scaling challenges as membership and working groups have grown, Funding as the biggest challenge for the not-for-profit, OpenUpgrade as a community-demanded project that requires real funding, The importance of sponsorship beyond membership fees, Local associations in different countries and the funding challenges each faces, Why free software doesn't automatically generate contributions back, Contributing with time vs money - both are valid paths, PR reviews as the most valuable way to contribute time, The "give and take" of code review: you can't expect reviews without doing them, Peer review as the quality guarantee that makes OCA modules trustworthy, Odoo SA security talk recommending OCA as the go-to source for third-party modules, Lowering the mental barrier for new contributors through code sprints, The contributors' mailing list as a supportive resource with long-standing experts, Community culture: collaboration, transparency, openness, and having fun, Aspirations: growing contribution, supporting new local associations, reducing setup pain points Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:02:31 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://media.opendigital.info https://media.opendigital.info/lazy-static/avatars/1c76e474-a93d-4a23-aec7-b854de60eea7.png https://media.opendigital.info/videos/watch/a2faa92b-1e04-423b-a38e-177706a8928f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://media.opendigital.info/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.