https://media.opendigital.info/videos/watch/aa704538-7f08-4428-bc8a-b8872e405b06 Daniel Reis, OCA board member, reflects on his long journey with Odoo - from frustrations with proprietary software that led him to OpenERP, to his current role helping steer the Odoo Community Association. Recorded at Odoo Experience 2025, the conversation explores the history of Odoo's transition to an open core model, the OCA's role as guardian of the open source promise, the tension between hardcore open source values and pragmatic business realities, and Daniel's vision for the OCA becoming a "Wikipedia of business features". Topics covered: Daniel's origin story: frustration with proprietary vendor responsiveness driving him to open source, Discovering OpenERP as a productive framework competing with expensive proprietary alternatives, The "leap of faith" that starts open source communities and the snowball effect, Spain as an example of a community that kicked off versus countries where it never did, Odoo's shift from pure GPL to an open core model to solve cash flow and growth, The 80/20 promise: community edition open source, enterprise as a proprietary layer on top, Enterprise as a layer, not a separate product - it cannot run without community, OCA's bylaws requiring OSI-approved open source licences, The two "tribes" within the community: open source purists and pragmatic business users, OCA's role safeguarding Odoo's future if SA ever relicensed the product, Funding OpenUpgrade to provide a fully open source migration path (vs Odoo's paid service), The multiple layers of open source: code, collaboration, full lifecycle, OCB (Odoo Community Backports) as a community-maintained fork of community merges, OCA as a "daily reminder" keeping Odoo SA honest to its open source promise, Current priorities: growth to match Odoo's exponential expansion, and governance balance, Licence debates within the community (LGPL by default?), Long-term vision: OCA as a "Wikipedia of business features" - a module for anything, Hope for OCA to be recognised as a partner, not a competitor, by Odoo SA sales, Advice for newcomers: visit the website, subscribe to the contributors mailing list Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:04:58 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/aa704538-7f08-4428-bc8a-b8872e405b06 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.