OWASP Board Meeting — May 14, 2012

Official minutes of this Board meeting.

Meeting Details

Date: Monday, May 14, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM EDT – 2:30 PM
Location: Remote

Call to Order

Board Members

Seba Deleersnyder
Tom Brennan
Dave Wichers
Michael Coates
Eoin Keary
Board Members Absent: Matt
Staff Members Present: Kelly
Sarah Baso
Kate Hartmann
Alison
Committee Chairs/Members Present: Helen Gao

Absent

Matt Tesauro — 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

Old Business

Action items

Create mailing list with all current committee members (if not created)
Sarah to send Marketing RFP to all committees
What is going with PR or PR with Brains? No current arrangement or contract with PR firm to help OWASP. This needs to be communicated to committee members.

Projects

Action item for Kate: New Projects Requests to be migrated to Salesforce/Contact Us form
Proposed
- Flesh out/edit PM job description by end of week
- Have candidates lined up for next board meeting
- Suggested min amount of funds to set aside for this position (full time or part time): $35k
- Seba to put together selection team to assist with this effort: himself, interested board members, GPC members, and Kate

Updates to wiki/owasp home page (Tom)

Other than removing banner add (which now is back up) - no complaints received
Where did icons come from? Open source repository of images
Others encouraged to assist with wiki updates

IT Administrator Position (Tom)

What is our approval process before giving offers?
What is the current status of this IT Contactor (Kevin Reiter)? No formal offer letter extended. Currently all work Kevin is doing for us is as a volunteer.

Chapter mailing list:

Action item for chapters committee- Is mailman currently meeting chapter needs? Should we have a different workflow for new chapter set up (currently all new chapter are set up with mailman)?

Current headcount for upcoming AppSec Conference

Michael - Ireland, USA Seba - Europe, USA Dave - Europe, USA Eoin - Europe, USA, Ireland Tom - Latam, USA, Europe