OWASP Board Meeting — September 16, 2014

• Paul Ritchie - Interim Executive Director
  • Motion - Expenditure of 12k for APAC Tour
    • Motion: Jim
    • Second: Tobias / Eoin
    • 1k / per chapter
    • Names of Chapters (12)
      • 3 China
      • Tokyo
      • Sinagpore
      • Thailand
  • Vote
    • Eoin: Yes
    • Jim: Yes
    • Tobias: Yes
    • Tom: No
    • Josh: No
    • Fabio: Yes
    • Michael: Yes

Information on participating chapters: Japan (Tokyo), Korea (Seoul), Chengdu, Wuhan, Harbin, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong(? because date not sure) - note that these are at this moment only 10 chapters, so only max. 10k USD would be used.

• Josh: Tokyo shows $20 in chapter account. Japan shows $20,138.32. I don’t see a Korea or Seoul chapter, but the South Korea chapter has $2,359.34. I don’t see an account for Chengdu, Wuhan, or Harbin (China shows $0) Singapore has $1244. Malaysia has $264. Thailand has $404. Indonesia has $68. Hong Kong has $706.
• Data on chapter funds confirmed 9/17/2014 by P.Ritchie, sourced from wiki

Conference & Event Profit Split Policy

• Motion 1 - Local & Regional Events 75% / 25% - no cap - beginning 2015
  • Motion Tom
  • Second: Fabio
  • Vote:
    • Eoin: Yes
    • Jim: No
    • Tobias: No
    • Tom: Yes
    • Josh: No
    • Fabio: Yes
    • Michael: Yes
  • Motion 1 passes by majority approval
• Motion 2 - Local & Regional Events 90% / 10% - no cap - beginning 2015
  • Motion: Josh
  • Second: Jim
  • Vote:
    • Eoin: abstain
    • Jim: Yes
    • Tobias: Yes
    • Tom: Yes
    • Josh: Yes
    • Fabio: No
    • Michael: No
  • Motion 2 passes by majority approval, and now supercedes or replaces the approved motion #1.

[6:55 - 8:15pm]

• [Michael] - Strategic Goals 2015
  • Revisit strategic goal approach - 2014
  • https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Strategic_Goals
  • Discussion limited to 2014 progress & waiting for 2015 discussion with new board elect
  • Action Item -
    • Board members that are sponsors will update progress of goal by next meeting
    • Second goal will be owned by Fabio as sponsor
• [Tobias] - Project Review committee proposal from Johanna
  • Motion - Proceed forward with committee process. No conflicts with proposal
    • Motion: Tobias
    • Second: Jim
      • Approve: Consensus Approval
    • Action Item: Johanna to push forward. Jim to lead.
• [Tobias] - Profit Share models for AppSec conferences and other OWASP events
  • Done
• [Josh] - Default allocation of membership at conferences
  • http://owasp.com/index.php/Individual_Member
  • Kate to provide feedback on technical solution
• [Tobias] - handling of speakers for conferences
  • Ok, to table
• Global Conferences
• [Fabio] - Membernation
• [IT] - Should OWASP consider providing shared hosting to some set of projects or chapters
  • How to handle requests for sub-domains?
  • Motion - All owasp.org subdomains that do exist will be on owasp foundation controlled servers
    • Motion: Josh
    • Second: Tom
    • Vote
      • Eoin: Yes
      • Jim: Yes
      • Tobias: Yes
      • Tom: Yes
      • Josh: Yes
      • Fabio: Yes
      • Michael: Yes
    • Motion passes by majority approval.
  • Operational Note:
    • Review existing setup & bring inline with policy
    • Alert if budget is excessive

Motion to close Tobias & Second by Eoin

[8:15-9:00pm] Executive Session