Tradition & Future, with a coffee in the right hand, an action plan in the left — without forgetting Belgian beer and good camaraderie.
Odoo Experience is fast approaching. The members of the Odoo Synergie association – Network of French-Speaking Odoo Integrators are meeting on site to exchange best practices, lessons learned and fresh ideas. On the agenda: a common time slot (time to be decided together this week), a shared coffee ☕️ – our tradition – and a family photo to capture the moment 📸. Goal: to leave with very concrete actions for the year ahead.
Why Odoo Experience is THE moment for integrators
Odoo Experience is not just a trade show. It is the time when:
- products are unveiled (vision, roadmap, standard new features),
- best practices are compared (methodology, quality, project governance),
- alliances are confirmed (integrators, publisher, ecosystem),
- ideas turn into roadmaps.
For French-speaking integrators, it is a chance to make our voice heard – together – and to carry what makes our market strong, complementing the publisher: a demand for rigor (tradition), combined with a desire to innovate (the future).
Odoo Synergie – who are we?
Odoo Synergie – Network of French-Speaking Odoo Integrators is an association that brings together professionals who share the same conviction:
together, we go faster, further and… more efficiently.
Our purpose: to pool best practices, promote skills, structure the dialogue with the publisher, and grow the whole French-speaking community.
Our principles:
- Openness: room for sincere exchanges and field feedback.
- Pragmatism: concrete deliverables rather than wishful thinking.
- Ethics: respect for customers, peers and rules.
- Knowledge transfer: we document, we train, we share.
The "coffee & coordination" meeting
- Common time slot: set together this week (comment with your availability / send us a message).
- Format: 45 to 60 minutes, standing, coffee in hand.
- Goal: align our expectations, list priority workstreams, assign the first actions.
- Bonus: Synergie family photo to capture the moment (and prove we can smile without a keyboard).
Official action plan: preparing the meeting
- Action plan for the strategic committees — in direct continuity with our last meeting, with identification of potential members.
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Committees & leads :
- Relations with the publisher — led by Charles Pluyette
- Events & Communication, institutional relations & decision-makers — led by Charline HEURTAULT
- Training and partnerships with schools — led by Dylan Waltzing
- Actions already completed and decisions made: consolidated beforehand to share a clear recap on the day.
- Partnership spirit: factual messages, shared objectives and co-construction with the publisher.
Priority workstreams
We focus our energy on three workstreams driven by the working groups — co-built with the publisher and the ecosystem:
1) Co-construction with the publisher & service quality (lead: Charles Pluyette)
- Objectives: align expectations and practices, streamline support paths, promote skills.
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Deliverables :
- Shared framing note (templates & mutual commitments),
- Support routing path (SLA, roles, indicators),
- Skills framework & badges aligned with the publisher's roadmap.
2) Events & communication, institutional relations & decision-makers (lead: Charline Heurtault)
- Objectives: make our best practices visible, publicize use cases, structure the dialogue with professional organizations.
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Deliverables :
- Common communication kit (talking points, referenceable customer cases),
- Calendar of speaking slots & events,
- Sector studies (SMEs/mid-caps, industry, trading, retail, services).
3) Training & partnerships with schools (lead: Dylan Waltzing)
- Objectives: develop a talent pool, harmonize frameworks, make it easier to enter the profession.
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Deliverables :
- French-speaking Odoo skills framework (functional & technical),
- Odoo Campus Kit (syllabus, case studies, mini-projects),
- Cross-mentoring program between integrators.
What we want to bring to (and take back from) Odoo Experience
- Usable lessons learned: "what works / what gets stuck / how to do better".
- Points of contact on the product & support side: who to see, on which topics, with which factual elements.
- A continuous improvement protocol: our common indicators (project quality, customer satisfaction, time-to-value, adoption rate).
- A schedule: 90 days, 6 months, 12 months, with a clear owner per deliverable.
And above all: a mindset. We test, we document, we share.
Join the initiative
- Are you a French-speaking integrator? Join the on-site meeting, share your availability, propose a 5-minute topic.
- Are you a customer or partner? Come and discuss your real challenges: our working groups thrive on concrete cases.
Want to talk beforehand? Contact us and let's have a call before the event. We promise to bring the (virtual) coffee; you bring the (real) problem!
For those in a hurry
- When: at Odoo Experience (common time slot confirmed this week).
- What: coffee, coordination, family photo.
- Why: to leave with concrete actions and useful deliverables.
- How: playing as a team, without posturing, with method.
See you very soon on site. Smiling photo strongly recommended.