OWASP Board Meeting — July 9, 2014

Board Meeting - Wednesday July 9, 2014 9am to 10pm PST

THIS MEETING IS RECORDED

Board Attendance:

• Michael Coates, Josh Sokol, Tobias Goldrum, Tom Brennan, Eoin Keary, Jim Manico, Fabio

Staff Attendance:

• Sarah Baso, Kate Hartmann, Kelly Santalucia,

Others:

Minutes: Please add timestamps at 30 minute intervals so those watching archive can jump to sections of interest.

12:02 pm Eastern

Chairman report

• Community updates are continuing to take place every 2-3 weeks (yesterday was last broadcast)
  • Good way to highlight efforts going on in the community
  • Another way to spread operational information
• ED Transition is continuing Tom - Vp Update
• no additional items at this point Josh - Treasurer update
• will cover later in meeting Tobias - Secretary update
• No quorum in first hour, quorum 2nd & 3rd hour - meeting minutes and recording available on the wiki, items not discussed pushed to agenda for this/later meeting Jim - ad hoc
• Wiki update/curation in progress Executive Director Update
• Checkin on budget status & questions/comments from previous board meeting (link in agenda)
• Financial transparency includes board/staff expenditures, vendor costs
• Foreign bank filings for 2012 & 2013 filed
  • filed per guidance from KPMG
  • needs to be filed annually going forward
• VAT tax filings
• LATAM - bad debt of $30,000 from Oct, 2011 event, not collected, issue closed and documented
  • worked with collection agency for >1 year. Unable to collect
  • counted as loss
  • issue closed
  • processes updated to avoid future scenario - proper vendor vetting through owasp foundation
• Audits will happen every year since >$2million revenue
• Josh - Chapter budgets & money - 2014 strategic goal
  • 372k in current chapter bucket
  • only 9k available to foundation at this point
  • Who will lead this area with Sarah’s transition
  • Need to update/review who will focus on strategic goals
    • also see last month’s report from Sarah
  • Chapter funding could be addressed within committees 2.0
• Let Sarah know if there is information/clarification needed regarding anything in the report

Election

• Open Discussion
• https://www.owasp.org/index.php/2014_Board_Elections
• Timeline - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/2014_Board_Elections#Election_Timeline
  • current timeline - October 29, 2104 - Election Results Announced
• AppSecUSA Sept 16-19
• Recommendation:
  • Need more candidates, signal to board/community to help. Kelly to follow up August 1, 2014.

Board Meeting at AppSec USA

• Confirmed for Tuesday evening, September 16th - 6 to 9pm in person

Committees 2.0

• Current draft of committees 2.0 plan: https://docs.google.com/a/owasp.org/document/d/1Qpb34WXJQfPdNOc2w7iwGwgwDUsI8GmGtM8C6bRPzU8/edit
• Call for comments from community, Board, and Staff - would like to move forward with a vote via email tomorrow.

Motion to close - michael 10:11 am, seconded - Tobias