OWASP Board Meeting — October 8, 2012

• [Sarah] Recommendations on debt collection from AppSec Latam 2011 (Brazil)
  • Vote to move forward with Atradius:
    • Yes - Matt, Michael, Seba, Dave, Eoin
    • Matt will look over contract with Atradius feedback

• [Kate & All] Committee Structure

  • Wiki page for new structure https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Initiatives_Global_Strategic_Focus

  • Proposal

    • https://docs.google.com/a/owasp.org/document/d/1HKywO6WBU2ujhYXtA9Si1jlmM4ckrdv5lm5eJbF6woA/edit

  • Staff is facing a lot of challenges with organizing and motivating volunteers in the current structure. Wiki page outlines the new structure proposed by the staff for handling volunteer efforts and focus areas.

  • New structure has been socialized to leader’s list and comments posted to reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/owasp_initiatives/comments/10vycz/owasp_initiatives_global_strategic_focus/

  • Questions -

    • How does this effect the budget? How will the money be allocated?
      • Instead of allocation to committees, individual initiatives can submit funding requests which will be reviewed by the staff.
      • Money will be more freely available to spend (in large foundation bucket instead of committee budgets)
      • This needs to be fleshed out more

  • Suggestion (Jason) - recommended putting some extra time/money/effort into this new effort to put some polish on the system. The extra polish will help adoption and acceptance.

  • Action items -

    • Continue to socialize to community and committees
    • Host webinar for anyone to join for discussion/questions/etc

  • Vote of Support for this proposal with the next steps of building a roll out plan, sending for final feedback request to committees and leaders, and additional docs to explain

    • Seba - yes
    • Matt - yes
    • Michael - yes
    • dave - yes
    • Tom - yes
    • Eoin - yes
  • • [Kate] Proposal to hire PT contractor to assist current staff with administrative tasks - membership card creation, setting up emails, wiki account requests, setting up student chapters and global chapters, data clean up, etc.
• [Samantha] Updates -
  • 25k received from DHS, working on getting another 25k for ESAPI
  • Working on update of projects handbook

Agenda for Upcoming Meeting in Texas

• Budgeting for 2013
  • One global budget or separate budgets for US and EU?
• Proposal for PT contractor to help with admin tasks

Other action items

• Set up separate “accounting” call for Matt, Seba, Kate, Alison, etc.
• Notify community about upcoming “out of cycle meeting” in austin