Happy Birthday Planet Odoo!

MANUÈLE: 0:00

For us, it's karma because we always used to be on the other side. And now we are actually doing the podcast and realizing how challenging it is.

AMY-CAROLINE: 0:10

What's funny is that as the podcast is so new, I think for all of us, there really has been a learning curve and it's just been really interesting to see how each of us individually are adapting and growing in this whole process.

MANUÈLE: 0:26

We actually had to launch the podcast in less than a month, so we were just brainstorming and then we were asked to actually do it a month later.

OLIVIER: 0:34

When you're making something like that, you need to to have like a story to tell in the episode, and you have to to keep something interesting and you can just you cannot just list things. Uh, and that is really difficult because you tend to do that very, very easily when you try to explain something.

LÈNA: 0:50

I am not a sound engineer. So in that sense, also, the podcast birth was quite challenging for us because we needed to learn how to record, edit, put all the EQS and stuff. So that's, uh, that's the storytelling part and the technical part. That was quite difficult.

OLIVIER: 1:09

Hello Odooers. Today marks a milestone for us as we joyfully celebrate the one year anniversary of Planet Odoo. It's been an incredible journey and to make this occasion truly special, we've gathered some of the brilliant minds who've played a role in shaping this project, whether they've been hosts, speakers, media specialists, or coordinators, you've undoubtedly encountered their voices throughout the year. So what better way to commemorate this anniversary than by asking them to share their most memorable anecdotes? Ready for this special moment? Let's go. Hi, everyone.

ALL: 1:40

Hello. Hi. Hi, there. Hello.

OLIVIER: 1:42

So it's a very, very special episode. I think you can hear that because I have a lot of people around me today. Hopefully it will not be too messy. Be gentle guys, raise your hands. Uh, before talking, please. So, uh, we've gathered here a lot of people involved with the podcast to just talk about their experience with it and just tell a bit, you know, anecdotes to celebrate the first year anniversary of our Dear show. So maybe we'll start with introducing you guys, because I don't think people recognize you when you said hello actually, uh, so I don't know. We start with you, Richard.

RICHARD: 2:14

Uh, yeah. My name is Richard, uh, business analyst manager here at Odoo. And, uh, happy to be here.

OLIVIER: 2:19

Um, and so what have you been doing with the podcast?

RICHARD: 2:21

I've been helping out as one of the native English speakers in the company to help, uh, whoever we can with, uh, you know, interviewing people and candidates and, uh, going around the country and just checking out things and teaching everyone how to do. Uh Odoo.

OLIVIER: 2:35

So people actually should recognize you, I think. And maybe they should also recognize the next one. Right?

AMY-CAROLINE: 2:41

Yeah. That's right. Uh, hopefully you recognize my voice. I'm sure all of you have heard it. Hours and hours and hours of my voice. I'm Amy-Caroline. I work as a support team leader. Um, but I've also done many, many, many e-learning videos, as has Richard. Actually, um, but I'm the OG. I'd like to say you're the original e-learning video, uh, person, and I have stopped working on e-learning, but I started, uh, with podcasts, which has been just an amazing time. I've primarily been, um, having shows with external, um, users and partners. So it's been a learning experience for me as well. And it's interesting to see how other people have been using Odoo in their own businesses, um, and learning more about their use cases.

OLIVIER: 3:31

And that's kind of a historical episode, because it's the first time we are in the same episode, the three of us. So wouw wouw! Uh, yeah. And I suggest we move on to the next person. Manuèle.

MANUÈLE: 3:41

Hi. So my name is Manuèle, as you mentioned. Um, and I'm part of the marketing department, and I used to work on the podcast project, so I was part of the initial team, the OG team that launched the podcast a year ago.

OLIVIER: 3:57

Next one. Pauline.

PAULINE: 3:58

Hi. Uh, so my name is Pauline. I'm in charge of organizing Odoo experience, and I've had my own podcast episode about a year ago, and we discussed, like all the organization of Odoo experience, how we use the Odoo apps to organize these events and so on.

OLIVIER: 4:14

Um, it was like the third episode, I think. Yeah, it was the first one. Yeah, yeah. And finally Lèna.

LÈNA: 4:20

Hi. So I'm Lèna, I'm media specialist here at Odoo, which means that I'm part of the team who make all the videos, photos, all the audiovisual content for, uh, Odoo. And that includes, of course, the podcasts. So we were there from the start of the project, um, technically speaking, but also a bit of editorial because we are the first listener of the podcast when we record it. So usually we give some tips if we hear something that is wrong. And uh, so yeah, the audio visual team.

OLIVIER: 4:53

You're the one telling me when I do, uh, in the microphone. That's good. That's what I remember. Okay, so we all prepared a little anecdote to tell to to the audience. Uh, so I suggest we do another round. And of course, we can discuss and react on each other anecdotes. It doesn't need to be too formal. Uh, so we start with you again, Richard.

RICHARD: 5:14

Uh, sure. I guess, uh, for me, it's been a fun year to kind of see more of Belgium as well. Just traveled on site to different clients, see some of the cool things that they do. I think nothing beats going on site to see how a business actually works. When it comes to understanding what their pain points are, how they do things, because it really creates a lot of context, and a lot of times it's mostly done remotely, which doesn't really, uh, give you that same detail. So it's been a lot of fun talking to these businesses and, uh, seeing how they do things.

OLIVIER: 5:45

Um, could you provide an example of one experience in particular you have in mind?

RICHARD: 5:50

Yes. Uh, we, I did IsoHemp, uh, really close by to the office here, uh, which is our first on site, I think, of the year, which was a bit of a challenge because we were still figuring out how to best do it. Uh, some retakes, but it was a lot of fun. Good insights made me really kind of appreciate the process. We also went to Mintjens client who did, um, furniture, uh, a successful project. It was great to see them, uh, remember them saying the name of a consultant on the team and saying how much they liked working with them because it made me feel really proud.

LÈNA: 6:22

It was a huge project. Um, Mintjens.

RICHARD: 6:24

Very big project.

LÈNA: 6:25

Very different episode with a lot of sound design and stuff. Uh, I can remember the struggle in post-production.

RICHARD: 6:32

Very loud and noisy.

LÈNA: 6:34

But it was very nice because people admissions were really nice to.

RICHARD: 6:37

Super nice.

LÈNA: 6:38

Super nice.

MANUÈLE: 6:38

Yeah, it was very welcoming and willing to teach us the different processes. So that's as you mentioned, I think that's one of the great part of the podcast is that we got to discover so many industries in depth and so going there on site and discover them. It was a blast.

RICHARD: 6:54

Seeing the magic hat actually worked really great.

AMY-CAROLINE: 6:58

Yeah, that is something really special. I didn't go on site with the podcast, but I have with other Odoo projects and it's cool because we're really excited to get to know the customer or the user and what they're doing, and likewise, they're just so excited to show us what they do and how they use Odoo. And it's just this really nice collaboration on both sides. And I think we get a little bit of that at the Odoo experience as well, kind of full circle moment. But yeah, I completely agree. That's super cool experience.

LÈNA: 7:28

Yeah. When we go to film, also the customer success stories with the media team, it's almost the same vibe. It's always super great to see the clients, the partners, how they use, um, they use Odoo. I know also that some listeners are partners because when I go on shoot, they say to me, oh, I heard your podcast, it's great, blah blah blah. And so that's cool. It's good to meet the people who actually listen to us. So it's always great to see how really it works on field.

PAULINE: 7:57

But actually so many people listen to the podcast and they actually learn from the podcast. Like, for example, like, uh, two weeks ago, I was, uh, going through interviews, uh, because we were trying to hire a new person for the Odoo experience team, and most of the candidates had listened to the podcast and could understand the job way better than the job description itself. And it was great, actually, to to see that it just not just like partners listening to it and knowing about it, but it can actually help people understand better what we're doing here.

OLIVIER: 8:28

Sure. And I think it's, uh, I have a friend who recently applied, uh, at Odoo. Oh, okay. We didn't hire him, but, uh, he applied. And, uh, when he, you know, he wanted to to to to learn more about the company, of course. And I told him you should listen to the podcast at least, like the the first episode with Fabien, just to get an idea of the culture. And he listened to a bunch of episodes like that. And I think it helps a lot for, for people in this case, indeed. Uh, and actually, uh, I think I'm going to tell my anecdote now because it's a bit connected to what we just said, uh, uh, personally, something that I find really, really funny and a bit a bit unsettling, actually. It's, it's, you know, we have all those after works moments with, with the whole company, big meetings, all that, of course, like in any company. And, uh, and I have people, two colleagues here, uh, that come to me and just like, oh, you're the podcast guy. Hi. How are you doing? And I don't know them. I'm like, who? Who who was that? Uh, and and I find it really funny, uh, and it's really cool because, you know, it's rewarding. You feel that people are listening to what you're doing, and it's fun.

RICHARD: 9:34

Amy and I have the same issue all the time.

OLIVIER: 9:36

Yeah, I think it must be worse for you, actually.

RICHARD: 9:40

Amy-Caroline. Sorry.

MANUÈLE: 9:43

But, yeah, that's a bit in link with my anecdote as well. Is that now that we're talking about this, it's a bit of a proud moment because we actually had to launch the podcast in less than a month. So we were just brainstorming and then we were asked to actually do it a month later. And we only had 3 or 4 episodes in the backlog. I don't know if you remember, um, Lèna, but it was very challenging because the goal, what we had in mind was to meet the goal of releasing one episode weekly and the year after, that's exactly what we did. So. So that's a bit of an anecdote as well, a fun fact moment. Um, but yeah, it was a tough, tough ride, but a fun one.

PAULINE: 10:21

That means you can be proud of yourself.

MANUÈLE: 10:22

Yeah, but I mean, of the team in general.

OLIVIER: 10:24

But yeah. And what is really crazy is that, I mean, to me, it seems really crazy. I don't know if it's normal for marketing people. Maybe you find it just usual business as usual, but uh, uh, it's you have to build, uh, the, the audience for something like that. And it's really. Yeah. Like from from maybe not from scratch here because Odoo already existed. Not from the grown ups but still it's it's an entire new communication channel that we had to launch. And we weren't sure if, if the community would winter it. But now, one year later, I think we had 50,000 downloads. I so it's it's okay. I mean... In the process of making it uh, and maybe you also, uh, guys, uh, what kind of interactions did you have with the, with the community? Uh, uh, were there interactions to, to decide what to do or ideas or things like that?

MANUÈLE: 11:14

Um, for the first year? No, because we were a bit, um, testing and battling around what we wanted to do for the podcast. So we tested different concepts, but we didn't really ask the community what they wanted to do. But, um, I think now we're going to try to better interact with them because also the podcast, it's a place where we can meet and have discussions. So the community is part of Odoo DNA anyway. So I think the podcast is a great place to just meet and interact with them. So in the future I think we'll put some some process in place to to get better feedback and interact with them as well.

RICHARD: 11:49

I mean, uh, I'm quite, uh, quite bad at social media, so I don't necessarily know if people message me about it. Uh, blame my age, perhaps, but, uh, I don't really have much communication, so I actually wouldn't know if there's any good feedback if people actually want something.

MANUÈLE: 12:04

There was some on LinkedIn, mainly some people that reached out to us saying, ah, I will listen to the podcast. It's interesting. You can see also people sharing about it, um, and giving their, um, their opinion on it. So yeah, it's always it's always good. There's been some feedback, but I think one of the goal for the next year is to get better feedback, to just adjust and find the podcast real audience and real voice as well.

LÈNA: 12:28

And you will put something in place for that, right?

MANUÈLE: 12:31

I think. Um, so I used to be part of the team of the podcast, as I mentioned, so I don't have a clear view on what they're going to do exactly. But I think there has been discussions to include a way to give feedback or to just to give ideas. Um, so they'll explore that a little bit further in the in the next few months.

OLIVIER: 12:49

We might have something to tease for that. Right? Maybe. Maybe. So stay until the end of the episode and you will see, uh, or hear at least, uh, um, so maybe we can move on to one more anecdote. I don't know. Um, Pauline, you want to tell yours?

PAULINE: 13:05

Well, I started already with, uh, the interview process. Uh, but for me, the the best part of the podcast, what it it was only voice, uh, because, to be honest, they recorded my podcast wasn't the best day for me. Uh, physically speaking, like. I wasn't looking very good. But, uh, the good point is that you could only hear my voice and you couldn't notice that it wasn't a good day for me, and.

OLIVIER: 13:30

Your voice was fine.

PAULINE: 13:31

Thank you. Thank you so much. And we have a great media team that managed to make awesome pictures as well. So thanks a lot.

LÈNA: 13:40

Don't worry, we we are there for you.

AMY-CAROLINE: 13:43

But what's funny is that as the podcast is so new, I think for all of us, there really has been a learning curve and it's just been really interesting to see how each of us individually are adapting and and growing in this whole process. And so that's what has made this last year so special. And that's what's going to make 2024 even better, because we've learned so much already. And so with the collaboration that we will, uh, try with the community members and from our knowledge that we've gained this year, it's going to be super great. I'm really excited for this coming year.

RICHARD: 14:18

Most of my learning comes from people telling me how I'm doing things wrong.

MANUÈLE: 14:21

And I mean, but it helps, right?

OLIVIER: 14:24

What was for you the trickiest episode you did? Uh, the one that was the the most strong of the most difficult.

RICHARD: 14:31

I think IsoHemp has been the most difficult just because it was our first on on site, uh, figuring out the right way to talk, right way to walk. Do it in such a way that we still get the filming done in the background. Uh, and while also interviewing at the same time. So I think that was the trickiest, just from a logistical perspective. Um, but then otherwise they're mostly fine.

OLIVIER: 14:53

It's mostly keeping the storytelling for this kind of episode must be difficult because, you know, when you're when you're making. I'm just explaining for the. When you're making something like that, you need to to have like a story to tell in the episode. And you have to to keep something interesting. And you can just you cannot just list things. Uh, and that is really difficult because you tend to do that very, very easily when you try to explain something. And I think when when you visit a business, it's the same. It's, uh, you have plenty of things to show, but you need to find a way to show them one after the other, and that it makes sense for for people. And maybe that's something difficult, though it can.

RICHARD: 15:27

Be quite difficult. I think it's good to have a good story progression. That's why like from an organizational perspective, when it comes to what I do before to prepare an episode, it's always good. I start high level first, then go micro, but also maybe tell a story. You could tell the context behind everything, the high level, and then you go into the details also at the beginning. So what's worked really well at uh, uh mingens is we start at the beginning of the flow from when the customer comes into the door to the very end. When we deliver the product, it helps keep the tempo and the rhythm and the flow really well, but also helps guide the listener onto what's going on. So it's really critical from that perspective.

LÈNA: 16:04

Sure. The storytelling and at Mingens, the difficulty we had also is that we realized that if we wanted to take the sound because the idea was to recreate every step, but for that, you cannot record the voice at the same time as the the action. So what we did is that we recorded all the voice when it was calm, and then we recorded every step of the process separately and recreated everything in post-production in that way. It was very funny because I thought that was back at school when I was, uh, because I did a video editing and sound editing school. So I remember my, my films, and it was very funny, recreating all that ambience. And it was at the same time very difficult because I am not a sound engineer. We don't have sound engineers in my team. So in that sense, also, the podcast birth was quite challenging for us because we needed to learn how to record, edit, uh, put all the EQS and stuff. So that's, uh, that's the storytelling part and the technical part that was quite difficult on the mangent, uh, episode, as, uh, Amy Caroline mentioned is it's been a huge learning curve because for everyone, none of us had previous previous experience regarding the podcast, whether it's on the script part for me or the scenario for you, it was more on the technical part. So everyone was actually learning on the spot, from scratch, from scratch. Yeah, but at that it doesn't mean that we didn't do it well. But it was challenging in in that way. I agree with you.

OLIVIER: 17:48

It doesn't mean that we weren't doing well, but we're doing it better now. Yeah, we will do it better for sure. For sure. But yeah, just from the from from for the preparation of the episodes. I feel that now. Uh, so today is a bit special because, you know, we're just chatting, but, uh, uh, for regular episodes, uh, the first ones we used to have that that script that you were preparing with Global speaking, what we were, we were to talk about and to discuss. I read the script, I was like, okay, let's let's do it like this. And then we improvise a lot on on spot. And no, we don't do that anymore. I think it's way better like that, because I know beforehand what the guy in front of me is going is going to talk about. And and there are some questions I know I can drive a bit differently. No, for sure. And that really makes a difference, I think. Uh, but that's.

MANUÈLE: 18:31

Also the beauty of the podcast is that you have a discussion, you have some guidelines in the script, but it all comes down to having conversations. So of course there's going to be some elements that are going to be they're going to pop out and you you didn't expect.

OLIVIER: 18:44

So that's also that's the magic of it. So I think it's nice to improvise a lot on on that. But when you're prepared you can more easily just go back to the structure that was, uh, planned. And, and, and, you know, the people you're interviewing, uh, knows that you're going back to the structure when you're going back to the structure. And that's also important because otherwise, uh, that person can easily get lost. Yeah. Just to.

MANUÈLE: 19:07

To, to stay focused on.

PAULINE: 19:09

To be honest, as an interviewee, that was a bit challenging for me because I, of course, had read the scripts, uh, beforehand. And then when I was recording the podcast, I was like, that's nothing of what I had prepared, what I had planned for. Well, lucky enough, like the topic is a topic I know, so I could answer.

OLIVIER: 19:25

Back in the day, we didn't prepare it together and that was that's why we changed that.

PAULINE: 19:30

We just had the same documents, we both read the documents and then it comes up like, okay, well, I can answer that question, but that's not what I was planning to answer.

OLIVIER: 19:37

Hahaha. Magic.

RICHARD: 19:39

And it's hard to kind of know when to deviate from the script a little bit, to make it natural versus going back to the structure and making it more robotic. Definitely caught myself being a bit too robotic sometimes and wishing I replied differently. Yeah, so.

OLIVIER: 19:52

And the transitions sometimes. Yeah. But you know, personally, sometimes there are moments are like, wow, how can I what? And I say, what can I answer to that? What can I oh, come on, let's talk about something completely different. It's really it's that was a cool statement.

RICHARD: 20:06

Let's move on.

AMY-CAROLINE: 20:08

I have the same struggle, but for me it's more I don't want to miss anything. I want to get all of the good questions in there. And then I, you know, I'm checking. Okay. Did I ask this? Did I ask this? And then I tend to get a bit too focused on that and then that I lose a bit of that natural. We're just two people talking kind of vibe. So that's something that will hopefully will continue getting better and better with more practice. Practice makes perfect, right?

OLIVIER: 20:33

Hopefully.

LÈNA: 20:34

And in terms of practice, that was my anecdote because as you all said, we started from scratch. And I remember Olivier, you mentioned it at the start of this episode. Yeah, I remember Olivier, you improved a lot and I forgive you for that.

OLIVIER: 20:51

I say, but I still do it. I know, uh.

LÈNA: 20:54

Is that at first, in the first episode, Olivier really discovered the world of podcasting and hosting. And so he was saying a lot of, uh, a lot of, uh, and so I did a small, small competition for you and you.

OLIVIER: 21:13

Oh. Thank you. Uh uh uh. Uh uh uh. Uh uh uh uh uh uh. Uh, and.

LÈNA: 21:20

That's for like one minute and a half of discussion.

OLIVIER: 21:24

Not surprised.

LÈNA: 21:25

You must imagine. Then, when I was editing the first episode, I had hours and hundreds of cuts to make to remove all that so that people can bear listening to the.

OLIVIER: 21:36

Full version of it is five hours long, and it's on YouTube. And...

LÈNA: 21:41

It's very relaxing. You can have that to to help you focus. I've had a.

RICHARD: 21:46

Similar situation where I had to like, help train people how to do demos, and they were presenting in front of a group. And one of the things I would do, it's also something you do in a Toastmasters event. It's a fun, uh, public speaking exercise. Someone got up to like 90 something in like a 15 minute demo. At some point I had to stop counting. I asked them if they wanted to know how much. They just said no.

LÈNA: 22:07

Oh my God.

AMY-CAROLINE: 22:08

Probably to the best. Crush their confidence.

LÈNA: 22:11

Yeah, and some people have weird ways of talking sometimes when they come to the mic and you always add some words and you, you never say, but when you're stressed, you just panic. And that's also what we said at the beginning of the podcast and before recording. It's for us, it's karma because we always used to be on the other side. Yeah, and now we are. And now we are actually doing the podcast and realizing how challenging it is. I will try to count my, uh oh yeah.

OLIVIER: 22:39

Maybe that, maybe it's it's. It's all right. It's all right.

PAULINE: 22:42

You might need to remove a lot.

AMY-CAROLINE: 22:43

So for you, it's even more complicated because you, I mean, as a host because you're talking about a lot of technical things as well. So I can imagine it's difficult to find the words to explain something technical in a way that's easily digestible for the audience.

OLIVIER: 22:57

And something that is really. Special, and sometimes I feel a bit bad about it because, you know, I have people from the marketing coming to me and being like, okay, uh, we should do an episode about this kind of topic of technical thing, uh, or this point, you know, that that seems really nice, right? Uh, and I just look at the thing, I'm like, okay, but that's going to last two minutes. Uh. Because that's, that's. That's actually not that complex or not, you know, not that special. Uh, uh, and yeah, sometimes I feel a bit like I'm the one, you know, saying, oh, no, it's, uh.

MANUÈLE: 23:31

I mean, that's a good point because you're helping helping us just select the subject and qualitative subject as well.

OLIVIER: 23:38

Mhm.

MANUÈLE: 23:39

Well, because you have the knowledge that we don't.

OLIVIER: 23:40

So but I know it's also for me because if I have to speak about something that is not that interesting for 20 minutes. Yeah it's hard huh. But so yeah, yeah. But I wouldn't say it's that complex to explain the technical side. Uh, because we, we stay very, you know, on surface, we give a broad view of the topic and we never really get into the details because you couldn't really do that, uh, with an audio podcast, and especially not in 20 minutes, uh, like that often you need to show charts to, to pieces of codes and things like that. So but we might do that. That's teaser. Uh, we might, we might, we might do that a little more now because, uh, there is this new format on Twitch that we're doing. So we'll do unplugged, uh, which is longer and in which we have the video. And so we can have a visual support. Uh, and so there might be a bunch of more technical things, uh, in this one.

PAULINE: 24:33

Yeah. Well, in the meantime, you can always rewatch the Odoo experience talks.

AMY-CAROLINE: 24:37

Yeah. That's right.

OLIVIER: 24:39

Of ourse, of course. Uh, of course. But I think it's a bit different. And it's nice to have something with a bit, a bit more of a of a chatty side, uh, because the experience you have to present the things really clearly, really well and, and with limited time and there you have the opportunity to have more interaction on the thing and maybe get also a bit more enthusiastic about things because that's that's something that I like to do a lot. And I talk with my hands. I'm doing it now. Uh, and uh, I think it's, I'm doing, uh, sorry. Uh, I think it's.

LÈNA: 25:10

You can put a marker, Judith.

OLIVIER: 25:15

Well. No, I think it's it's really nice to to to be able for, for developers to talk about their thing and really, uh, be more chill when they're talking about it and share their passion, actually. So yeah.

LÈNA: 25:28

And it's very different also for the, the twitch because you have that interaction with the people in the chat too, so they can ask questions of course. So if you are interested in that type of, uh, discussion, don't hesitate to check our Twitch channel. And uh, yeah, I think it's very different. It's completely different. I think the talks and the discussions that we have in the podcast or in the Twitch discussions, it's all very different with different purposes indeed.

OLIVIER: 25:56

Uh, um, so we are reaching the end of the, uh, the allowed time for, for the episode. So I have to, to, to cut it now, I think before ending, we can maybe announce a bit more clearly what we were teasing a bit earlier about the interaction with the audience. So, Richard, you explain.

RICHARD: 26:14

Yes. So the idea, I guess, will be to add a pad in the link of each episode. So that way you can interact, write down your questions and the we'll take them into consideration for the next time we have an episode.

LÈNA: 26:25

Can you explain maybe what a pad is for people who don't know?

RICHARD: 26:29

Ah, it's a good point. A pad is a link you can actually create. It's like a a text character box. Or you can interact and write, live your comments questions with some formatting options as well. And if you're accessing the same link as others, you can actually see each other type and speak to each other if you really prefer. Kind of like a active interactive chat room. It's a pad Odoo. Com quite easy, but you can create your own.

OLIVIER: 26:53

You will get the link anyway. But indeed it's uh, so you can ask your questions, uh, put suggestions, uh, remarks, comments, whatever, uh, in there. So it's the opportunity to get a bit more involved with the podcast yourself. If you're, uh, an old listener and have, you know, things to propose, uh, as a conclusion, I suggest. So maybe that's that's like the typical question, but, you know, it's the beginning of the year. I have to ask it. What do you wish for the podcast in 2024? So who wants to to answer that?

MANUÈLE: 27:22

I would say for me.

OLIVIER: 27:23

You seem to have ideas. Come on. Yeah.

MANUÈLE: 27:25

But because for me, I would wish for the podcast to refine its audience and its voice. I think we paddled around a little bit too much, testing different concepts, different kind of episodes, and we kind of just say, okay, we're talking to the audio community because we're we have at least 12 million users. So it's a big community. You have different profiles within that community. So you can't just talk to anyone, uh, everyone. So yeah, I would reach for the podcast to really focus and find its voice. And that's also what we I think we're going to share the pad with the audience is just to get the best. So what are you expecting? Yeah.

RICHARD: 28:03

I'd like to see more episodes that give our listeners a ha moment. Like a kind of a light bulb moment of realizing a new way of doing things, a new way of thinking, a new way of approaching certain topics. Because we're all in this community together. We all have similar issues or similar challenges, similar goals. And it'd be nice if we can use this media to help each other out and find new ways to do what we like to do.

AMY-CAROLINE: 28:27

And I on kind of the same lines as both what you guys are saying. I think that what I would like to see from the podcast is these aha moments, learning more from the community, but also for the community to get to know each other better because we're telling stories of users and partners who are going through the same things using Odoo and potentially the same ways, um, as other users. And they can give each other ideas and, um, we can show a whole new world of all the possibilities with Odoo.

OLIVIER: 28:57

Okay.

LÈNA: 28:58

And for me. I would say in the technical point of view. Um, first of all, that's a bit of a joke, but we will try. Judith and Judith is my my coworker here. We will try to find another sentence to test the microphones, because you have to know that each time, each time we we invite people to talk, to test the microphones, we say to them, oh, hi, Olivia. Can you tell me what you ate this morning for breakfast? And every time I don't know why. Guys, you don't eat before coming, but you just say I didn't ate anything. Okay. But that's not the goal. The goal is that you do a full sentence to explain to me so that I can test my microphone. So I will change that question. But sometimes it stresses Olivia a bit because we say to him, okay, you didn't eat anything. That's okay. What's your favorite movie? Oh, but that's too hard. Question. Why do you ask that I can choose and blah blah blah. So I think we will work on that topic. You know.

OLIVIER: 30:00

You know, uh, the thing is, I answer something long when you ask that. And at the end of the day, isn't it what you want? Exactly. Because if I would.

LÈNA: 30:08

They want to learn more about it.

OLIVIER: 30:09

If I would just tell you my favorite movie is Kingdom of Heaven.

LÈNA: 30:13

Yeah. That I will say. Oh, and why, I don't know, you can explain.

OLIVIER: 30:17

I don't know. It's my favorite movie.

LÈNA: 30:19

You're not helpful with it.

OLIVIER: 30:21

I know. See what we have to work with. Uh, fianlly Pauline.

PAULINE: 30:27

I just wish your podcast a very large success. Uh, and so that it can evolve for years and years, just as Odoo experience did, and that it will stay in the DNA of Odoo.

OLIVIER: 30:37

Just like Odoo experience. That's very old. Yeah, yeah, I hope so. Uh, well, for me, it will be a bit the same. I hope that the the audience will increase. Of course. Uh, I hope we'll get a lot of very interesting episodes with a lot of very enthusiastic people talking nice things about their job. Of course, interesting things for the audience, but some things, you know, that they, they care about and that you can feel they care about. Because that's what I prefer with the podcast, to have those passionate people talking about their thing. And that's really what what puts the energy into it, I think. Uh, so yeah, that's what I would wish for 2024. Why not? Uh, so anyway, uh, thank you guys for sharing all those stories, uh, with us. Uh.

RICHARD: 31:19

Thank you.

MANUÈLE: 31:19

Thank you for having us.

OLIVIER: 31:20

As we wrap up this episode, we also bid farewell to an extraordinary first year at planet Odoo. But fear not, fellow doers, it continues. Join us again next week for another exciting episode of Planet Odoo. And in the spirit of celebration, we are thrilled to unveil our brand new identity with a fresh, revamped look for the Planet Odoo podcast. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to each one of you for tuning in week after week, and for your unwavering support. Thank you! We are excited to start this new season of planet Odoo with you. If there are specific topics you'd like to delve into, questions to ask, or even an anecdote you would like to share with us, don't hesitate to click on the link in the description to access our brand new pad. See you there! Until then.

RICHARD: 31:59

Cheers and remember, stay awesome.

AMY-CAROLINE: 32:02

And if we don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.