Past Meetings

OWASP Board Meeting — June 11, 2012

Official minutes of this Board meeting.

Meeting Details

  • Date: Monday, June 11, 2012
  • Time: 1:00 PM EDT – 2:30 PM
  • Location: Remote

Call to Order

Board Members

  • Eoin Keary
  • Seba Deleersnyder
  • Dave Wichers
  • Matt Tesauro
  • Board Members Absent: Tom Brennan
  • Michael Coates
  • Staff Members Present: Kelly
  • Sarah Baso
  • Kate Hartmann
  • Alison

Absent

  • Tom BrennanAbsent

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

Old Business

  • Discussion Regarding Open Item from 2011 Election For Resolution

10-Oct-2011 Do you support a modification to the election policy that during annual owasp elections for the OWASP International Board of Directors that the candidate must be in good standing and have served the community in the role of active global committee member for min 12 months? Yes - Tom, Eoin, Seba No - Dave, Michael, Matt Note: Any new requirements shouldn't disqualify candidates from 2012 election

Related New Business

  • [Vote] Affirm 2011 Eligibility Requirements for Board Candidates
    • OWASP member in good standing for 12 month period prior to election
      • What is a “member”? Not just paid members, also project/chapter contributors

Member (not just paid members, also project/chapter contributors) in good standing, effective immediately (including the 2012 election)- YES: Eoin, Seba, Dave, Matt Member of Global Committee - No Eoin, Seba, Dave, Matt

Directors Report

  • operation status report June
  • [Discussion] [Kate] Update on the Cvent integration with Salesforce
    • Kate in the process of mapping fields
    • Goal is to have the integration complete by end of July

Other New Business

  • [Discussion] [Dave / Seba] Profit Sharing Draft

  • https://docs.google.com/a/owasp.org/document/d/159bD2oeAmM2yfPNeq5wHvIvHcl10Hl-c3Um2GXAW81Y/edit

  • Action item: Kate to follow up with Board members regarding time/date of board meeting in Athens, Kostas needs to schedule this with the venue ASAP.

  • [Discussion] [Eoin / Tom] Project Reboot - first round of proposals being completed this week

  • Fundraising is slow, but so far approx $16,000 USD allocated for this initiative

  • Kate coordinating communication with GPC and DHS regarding DHS funding of projects

  • Board members - need to review committee roles/responsibility document put together by Kate.

  • Currently committees are relying heavily on 4 staff members and this needs to be reviewed and agreed upon up Board members.

  • Kate to follow up with board members for discussion via email.

  • IT Infrastructure/Mailman update [Matt]

  • Kudos to Achim Hoffman for all of his assistance in solving these issues!

  • Issue - volume of incoming mail so large that the server is choking on the amount of email

  • “Mailman limit exceeded”

  • Changes to “send mail” settings made by Achim last week Wednesday, now no “spooling” of email happening

  • Currently - working on “bouncing” issues

  • Possibly solved by configuration

  • Now replication of OCMS, wiki, and mailman on a separate server (moving from public cloud to managed hosting with Rackspace).

  • [Update] [Michael] Legal Update : Nothing further to report

  • Action items: Kate needs help with Google ad words

  • Member (not just paid members, also project/chapter contributors) in good standing, effective immediately (including the 2012 election): YES
  • Member of Global Committee: NO

New Business

No items.

Comments, Announcements, and Other Business

Adjournment

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