Past Meetings

OWASP Board Meeting — February 7, 2018

Official minutes of this Board meeting.

Meeting Details

  • Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2018
  • Time: 12:00 PM EST – 1:30 PM
  • Location: Remote

Meeting recording

Call to Order

Board Members

Directors will be recorded when the meeting is called to order.

Guests

  • Karen Staley
  • Dawn Aitken
  • Kelly Santalucia
  • Claudia Aviles-Casanovas
  • Tom Pappas

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

Regional Membership - Dawn Aitken

  • Is available again.
  • $20.00
  • Regions - Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa

AppSec EU 2018

  • Date - July 3 - 6, 2018
  • Venue - The Queen Elizabeth Centre II
  • Contract - signed for venue
  • Training Days - two
  • Conference Days - two
  • Hotel - pending
  • Call scheduled for Friday with local Chapters for planning
  • Chenxi Wang - has an issued that it is scheduled on July 4th. She wants to know percentage of americans that go to AppSecEU
  • Based on AppSec EU 2017 - Belfast - 10% attendees were from the US
  • Will try to have colleges involved more
  • Local Chapters are promoting event
  • Website is updated - CFP and CFT same link
  • Communications will be sent out this week with dates, location and how long CFT and CFP will remain open.
  • Issues around collections of numbers and positions

AppSec US 2018

  • Date: October 8 - 12, 2018
  • Venue - Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA
  • CFP and CFT will be completed by Tiffany on Friday.
  • Karen will check with Travis McPeak (who is the lead from San Jose) about other chapters involvement.
  • Website to be updated by Travis McPeak
  • Content Review Board
  • Brochure - Hugo will be handling
  • Volunteers - Chenxi asks for gets volunteers
    • Owen - it is usually local outreach
    • Dawn - Tiffany sends out email to community for volunteers
  • Logistics - Staff
  • Sponsors - Kelly
  • Status Update - there is a weekly call (not done on Board call)
  • Karen will put together a list of people involved in San Jose.
  • https://www.owasp.org/index.php/How_to_Host_a_Conference

OWASP Summit - London

  • The Board voted not to support the Summit in 2017
  • Summit team decided to organize anyway
  • Summit is taking place the same week as InfoSec
  • Most people going there are community members and associate it with OWASP
  • Through conversations with Seba and others there is a hope to bridge the gap between owasp and the summit. Experience, customer service improving the OWASP experience
  • Board is asked to revisit this again
  • Suggesting staff - manage registration, customer service, social media and data collection
  • Suggest branding - Open Security Summit 2018 supported by OWASP
  • Andrew not happy that they open an OWASP bank account
  • Add link to summit on OWASP site

Motion - to support the OWASP Summit in London, Sherif Mansour motions, Martin Knobloch seconds.

Discussion

  • Cost discussion not much, more time 10-15%
  • Greg doesn’t make sense to dedicate resources as it’s not an official OWASP event
  • Hope is to make it an OWASP event – Martin has been to every summit and is happy to support
  • Several members not happy with approach taken
  • Andrew is for it if we can make it viable
  • Andrew not happy that they set up an OWASP bank account without approval.
  • Matt not quite fair to not inclusive
  • Discussion on global events and making them accessible

Vote Martin Knobloch - Yes Matt Konda - No Andrew van der Stock - No Chenxi Wang - abstain Greg Anderson - No Owen Pendlebury - Yes

Since there is a tie, Board President vote becomes final vote - Motion Approved.

In executive meeting second motion – Chenxi to put together some suggestions with Owen for restrictions in google doc.

  • Martin Knobloch: YES
  • Matt Konda: NO
  • Andrew van der Stock: NO
  • Chenxi Wang: ABSTAIN
  • Greg Anderson: NO
  • Owen Pendlebury: YES

New Business

No items.

Comments, Announcements, and Other Business

Adjournment

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