oba.

/ oh-BAH / noun · Turkic
  1. 1 The family homestead; tents pitched together.
  2. 2 Oba Center. The system that runs one — the members and the committees, the households and their dues, the events, and the weekend school — in your community's own language.

What it does — six rooms, one roof

Everything a center runs on

Built for cultural centers, mosques and churches, hometown associations — every organization where the unit of belonging is the family, not just the individual.

01

Members & committees

A living roster with roles and permissions — and committees that actually run, with meetings, minutes, and tasks attached to the people responsible.

02

Households & dues

Families as first-class records: one household, its members, its children — and its dues, tracked on a real receivables ledger, not a spreadsheet.

03

Events & calendar

Public programming and member events with registration and capacity, on a shared calendar the whole community can see.

04

Weekend schools

Language school on Saturdays, religion class on Sundays: terms, classes, rosters, attendance, and tuition — a small school system that already knows your families.

05

News, forums & chat

Announcements that reach everyone, forums for the long conversations, chat for the quick ones — inside the community, not scattered across group texts.

06

Payments & finance

Dues, tuition, and donations collected online, applied to the right family's account automatically, with statements your treasurer can stand behind.


Languages

A grandmother and her grandson, on the same day

Not translated as an afterthought — built multilingual. Every member chooses their own language.

English Türkçe Español Français Deutsch Русский Azərbaycanca Oʻzbekcha Türkmençe Кыргызча

Consent forms and school paperwork can be written in any language your families read — including ones the app itself doesn't speak yet.


Built with care

The promise, in writing

A community's data deserves a community's discretion.

The promiseIn practice
Invite-only by design Your organization decides who belongs. There is no public sign-up unless you turn it on.
Consent is a record, not a checkbox Photo permissions and program releases are signed against a specific text, in the signer's own language, and kept as evidence.
Families own their information Households edit their own records; staff see what their role allows and nothing more, with an audit trail behind it.
Your community, your space Each organization's data is its own — separate, scoped, and never pooled across communities.

Pitch your tent with us. Çadırınızı yanımıza kurun.