Past Meetings

OWASP Board Meeting — August 13, 2014

Official minutes of this Board meeting.

Meeting Details

  • Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2014
  • Time: 10:00 AM PDT – 11:00 AM
  • Location: Remote

Call to Order

  • Administrative (List of attendees and Agenda bashing (only if last-minute changes to the agenda are needed) (5 min)

Board Members

  • board meetings are recorded
  • publicly available as of March
  • 2013
  • Joining the call acknowledges your awareness of recording
  • consent to be recorded
  • public dissemination of the recording.
  • Meeting Recording

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

Reports

  • Executive Director/Operations Update - Rollup Report Paul Ritchie

    • Board Election Update
      • Kelly - everything on track according to wiki
      • Candidate vetting
    • Financial Transparency
      • Audit moving well - Tom Papas & KPMG
      • Tax moving forward, will hold filing until audit is complete - US & EU
    • Kelly - Help promote board elections
    • Kate -
    • Laura - APAC 2015 - Singapore incomplete proposal, pending China proposal
  • Old Business

      • New Business
    • Vote -
    • Vote needed - Board to authorize Paul Ritchie, OWASP Interim Executive Director to have Executive Director duties for financial oversight including review, approve, signature authority and release of funds for various financial obligations in accordance with the OWASP accounting & signatory policies.
      • recorded: 6 yes (Jim, Michael, Tom, Eoin, Fabio, Tobias) votes, (Jim motion, Tobias second)
    • OWASP MakeOver
      • Homepage in the works by community driven effort
      • Wiki makeover project in the works to with templating approach and review of top pages
    • Board Meeting in September
      • Remove Sept 10
    • Conference Location
    • Flagship & Project Review Process
      • (Jim update)
      • In progress
      • Johanna & team evaluating
      • Active per Jim
      • Proposal active for how to evaluate document projects
      • See project task force mailing list archives
      • OWASP Project Task force will apply for committee status
      • Jim to add links
    • Staff Hiring
      • Chapter Role hiring actively
      • Project Manager
        • Board responsible to determine direction of role & involve feedback from Paul’s analysis and operations team
        • Michael to send old job description to Board

New Business

No items.

Comments, Announcements, and Other Business

Adjournment

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