OWASP Board Meeting — May 15, 2018

Board of Director Report :

• Great staff meeting at Virtual (Boston)
• Organized duties and tasks
• Developing strategic plan
• Resolved a lot of items, continuing to clean things up
• Kelly is spending a lot of time on sponsorships and doing less administrative work.
• Projects - Harold is now reviewing all Projects.
• Chapters - Dawn Aitken is now the Community Manager
  • Reviewing the potential for different levels of Chapters and their funding
• AppSec USA
  • Registration is being finalized
  • Sponsorship is great
  • We will have a conference network event instead of a dinner
  • Keynotes - there will be three
• Tools
  • Salesforce - Fonteva is working on finalizing the migration, so we can establish the true membership numbers.
• Staff
  • Claudia is no longer with us.

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Financials

Tom Pappas

• We are of revenue by $79k
• Expenses - we are under in every category, except events
• We still don’t have an approved budget.
• Last year AppSec EU and USA made a profit, but did not make the budget projection. The expenses were higher than projected.

Karen Staley

• Too lower expenses for AppSec events
  • Less complimentary tickets (prior years, half the attendees were complimentary)
  • Driving paying attendees
  • More sponsorships
  • Chenxi Wang
• What is the budget for sponsorship for USA.

Karen Staley

• Budget is $410k, trying to reach $500k

Chenxi Wang

• I am available to help with sponsorships

Tom Pappas

• VAT Italian - looks like it is turning a corner. It will be completed soon.

Compliance Committee Updates

Greg Anderson

• The big issue is how the committee functions and operates
• I have asked for feedback from a member and the committee. I have not heard back yet from the member.
• Thinking that members of the compliance committee should be votable by the community.

GDPR

Karen Staley - we completed the checklist that Seba provided. Seba will be guide us further.

Tom Pappas - we are working with several of our customers. Our legal department developed a privacy policy.

Karen Staley - that is something we need to work on.

Martin Knobloch - we are not a business, we are a non-profit.

Karen Staley - is having a conference call to discuss this week.

Tom Pappas - let me know if you need any additional help.

DPO - postpone for now.

Online Training Portal

Karen Staley - I have a call scheduled this week to discuss.

AppSec EU 2019

Sherif Mansour - where is going to be held?

Karen Staley - I sent the strategy plan

• There is an option on revenue stream
• Increasing events for 2019

Martin Knobloch

• Call for conference hosting

Sherif Mansour

• The process should be community driven
• Do you want to add other regions, like Asia

Chenxi Wang

• I propose a committee to work with karen to define a global event strategy

Approval of 2018 Budget

Tom Pappas - this has been listed on the agenda for several meetings.

• 2017 - was an investment year.
• 2018 - we need to break even and try for a net profit.

Andrew van der Stock - we are growing and so are our expenses.

Sherif Mansour - budget planning, so the new Board in 2019 will have an approved budget for 2019.

Motion - to approve the 2018 Budget, Martin motions, Andrew seconds.

Vote Matt Konda - Yes Sherif Mansour - Yes Chenxi Wang - Yes Greg Anderson - Yes Owen Pendlebury - Yes Martin Knobloch - Yes Andrew van der Stock - Yes

The 2018 budget has been approved.