Lots of work has been done in the new version of the Odoo website in version 14. We summarize in this blog.

The Training and Learning Event from the Odoo Community Association (OCA) in 2020 was held online on 15 and 16 October. Amongst the 28 talks, many focused on how-to build, develop, test and use a range of Odoo features and tools. A few talks focused on the OCA itself, like "The Future of the OCA and its Governance", and "OCA: from the point of view of Odoo SA" by Fabian Pinckaers, CEO of Odoo.

The release of Odoo 14 Enterprise for the first time didn't bring many new applications, but focused on quality improvement. "Data cleaning" is the one new app introduced in Odoo 14.

As a company working in open source software development for business and non-profit organizations, we tell the Therp programmers to look into the code of other developers. To add good software you have to know what other existing modules do, and how they do it. More importantly, you learn from weaknesses and good ideas in the existing software which invites you to use your creativity and do it even better. As we look at the software of others, others look at ours.

On the ICT floor of "Broedplaats Volkskrant", Amsterdam, Gendo and the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) shared the kitchen. That's where I met Arjen end 2007 and had animated talks about Open Source software. Arjan was Chief Technology Officer of Gendo, I volunteered for the FKI and worked as manager ICT at Friends of the Earth Netherlands.

On May 25th, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the EU, opening a new era of data protection and privacy for everyone. It aims to harmonize and modernize existing privacy legislation and to give individuals more control on their personal data.

After I, Martien, had expressed my interest in Odoo at THerp, things went very quickly. Would I like to take a course in Nairobi, Kenya? My answer was of course: yes. After an eight hour flight we were picked up from the airport and dropped off at the hotel. The next day the course would start, so I did some unpacking and went to bed.

From 11 to 13 December 2017 I joined a business visit to Palestine organized by Paul Tía in collaboration the Palestinian Market development Program (PMDP) and PITA (Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies.

The project to migrate the OCA implementation to Odoo v10 was an European collaboration. Therp (Amsterdam), Eficent (Barcelona) and Tecnativa (Madrid) worked together and finished the job. The project went smootly.

Therp B.V and Sunflower IT (link) have a partnership since the beginning of 2017. The programmers of Sunflower IT, Tom Blauwendraat and his Kenian colleagues Duncan Kiplangat and Terrence Nzaywa, work, together with the employees of Therp, for Dutch customers

On 25-6-2017 a global cyber attack took place. Several private companies all around the world have confirmed that they were struck by the attack, among many more: the American pharmaceutical giant Merck

29-31 mei 2017 was de OCA code sprint in Barcelona. 50 open source programmeurs uit allerlei landen - Spanje, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Italie - kwamen om samen te werken aan OCA modules. Voor nieuwkomers leuk om eindelijk de gezichten te zien achter veelgebruikte OCA modules zoals bijvoorbeeld de Odoo Connector.

Therp en Sunflower IT bezegelden onlangs een partnerovereenkomst, waarmee de samenwerking die al in gang was gezet, werd geformaliseerd.

De laatste weken staat het nieuws bol van hacks, lekken of reeds gelekte data bij gerenomeerde organisaties waaronder Yahoo, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), en de Democratic National Committee (DNC) in de VS.

Odoo faciliteert onze core business. Onze processen verschillen ongetwijfeld in diverse details met andere service gerichte bedrijven, maar de basis is hetzelfde. Veel doen we in Odoo.

De Odoo software krijgt voortdurend verbeteringen. Door inspanningen van individuele bedrijven voor klanten of zogenaamde 'code sprints'. Ook de jaarlijkse Odoo dagen, Odoo expierience 2016, in october werd uiteraard weer vooraf gegaan aan een Odoo code sprint georganiseerd door de OCA. Therp was van de partij. De werk-bijeenkomst vond plaats in het Ibis Hotel van Louvain la Neuve.

Traditionele eCommerce en CMS systemen kennen doorgaans een moeizame integratie met uw bedrijfsprocessen. Met Odoo is het wel mogelijk relatief snel goede uitwisseling te realiseren. Zo kunt u op uw website gekochte producten of reacties op vacatures, in Odoo verwerken. Andersom kunnen in Odoo geregistreerde medewerkers, howto's, blogs of evenementen direct op uw website gepubliceerd worden.

Probably you know already Odoo is a full-featured open source ERP with a focus on extensibility. It is built on a powerful framework for rapid application development, both for business applications and front-end websites. Odoo is mostly easy to use for end-users, but for system-administrators and developers, the tasks are not always so easy.

The Odoo Code Sprint (Europe) took place in Sorrento, Italy. The main topic for this sprint, held from April 26th to 29th, was building community financial reports for Odoo v.9. The event started with a morning update from the company Akretion on the account report structure in Odoo v8 and what's missing in v9.