Past Meetings

OWASP Board Meeting — June 3, 2008

Agenda for this Board meeting.

Meeting Details

  • Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
  • Time: 1:00 PM EDT – 2:30 PM
  • Location: Remote

Call to Order

Board Members

  • Jeff Williams
  • Tom Brennan
  • Dinis Cruz
  • Paulo Alison Shrader
  • Kate Hartmann

Absent

  • Dave Wichers — Absent

Guests

No guests listed.

Conflict of Interest and Anti-Trust Statement

As the Board consists of individuals from many competing organizations, OWASP and its Board shall abide by all applicable anti-trust and competition laws. To avoid any perceived or actual conflict of interest, or anti-trust concerns under US federal, state, or regulations, only the published agenda shall be discussed or voted upon, or amended as below. If there are any conflicts of interest, Board members are expected to disclose the conflict of interest and must recuse themselves from discussion and voting.

Changes to the Agenda

Changes to the agenda — unless otherwise prohibited by anti-trust or competition laws — including adding, altering, or tabling of motions is permitted by following Roberts Rules of Order (RONR 12th Ed) 41:63, which requires an affirmative two-thirds vote.

Approval of Minutes

None listed.

Pre-reading Material

Reports

OWASP Financials - 5 minutes

  • Audit is scheduled for first week in June (Dave)
  • OWASP 200k investment plan
    • 150k: OWASP EU Summit
    • 35k: 4x Graduates from xyz University
    • 15k: Working Group in DC
  • OWASP London Office
    • New employee to focus on OWASP chapters and help Paulo?
    • Office Space in London (from an 'OWASP' friend, together with Ivan from Breach Security)

Old Business

Review of Action Items from last month’s meeting - 20 minutes

  • Update on details of Working Groups (Dinis & Tom)
  • More clear guidelines for OWASP Projects? (Dinis & Paulo)
  • Write and post job description for OWASP Director (Dave & Alison)
  • Write a proposal and send to board about letting corporate members choose which project their funds go to (Dinis)
  • Draft an email to send to OWASP leaders concerning moving to a branded OWASP Blog, maybe with Google (Dinis)
  • Update on Local Chapter finance model (Tom)
  • Update governance/owas bylaws form to include the requirement of an 3rd party audit every 3 years (Tom/Dave)
Relevant reading

New Business

Agenda for OWASP Board Meeting: 06/03/2008

Review of Action Items from last month’s meeting - 20 minutes

  • Update on details of Working Groups (Dinis & Tom)
  • More clear guidelines for OWASP Projects? (Dinis & Paulo)
  • Write and post job description for OWASP Director (Dave & Alison)
  • Write a proposal and send to board about letting corporate members choose which project their funds go to (Dinis)
  • Draft an email to send to OWASP leaders concerning moving to a branded OWASP Blog, maybe with Google (Dinis)
  • Update on Local Chapter finance model (Tom)
  • Update governance/owas bylaws form to include the requirement of an 3rd party audit every 3 years (Tom/Dave)

OWASP Financials - 5 minutes

  • Audit is scheduled for first week in June (Dave)
  • OWASP 200k investment plan
    • 150k: OWASP EU Summit
    • 35k: 4x Graduates from xyz University
    • 15k: Working Group in DC
  • OWASP London Office
    • New employee to focus on OWASP chapters and help Paulo?
    • Office Space in London (from an 'OWASP' friend, together with Ivan from Breach Security)

Conferences - 15 minutes

  • Recap of Belgium Conference. What went well? What should go better next time?
  • Front Range OWASP Conference June 10th
  • India Conference
  • NY Conference
  • OWASP_EU_Summit_2008
  • EU 'Conference Travel Pack' - Paulo to participate in 4 conferences in Europe with the 'OWASP Conference pack & stand' (same for US (there was a guy at in Belgium that wanted to do it))
Relevant reading

Conferences - 15 minutes

  • Recap of Belgium Conference. What went well? What should go better next time?
  • Front Range OWASP Conference June 10th
  • India Conference
  • NY Conference
  • OWASP_EU_Summit_2008
  • EU 'Conference Travel Pack' - Paulo to participate in 4 conferences in Europe with the 'OWASP Conference pack & stand' (same for US (there was a guy at in Belgium that wanted to do it))
Relevant reading

Chapter Happenings - 10 minutes

  • New Chapters
  • Chapter leader changes
  • Inactive chapters
  • Chapter assistance

Miscellaneous - 20 minutes

  • Need to define the existing and potential additional board member roles for guidance of the organization. Once these are defined, we should have a published wiki page with the roles and responsibilities of persons paid or unpaid.

Adjournment

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