Past Meetings

OWASP Board Meeting — November 21, 2018

Official minutes of this Board meeting.

Meeting Details

  • Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2018
  • Time: 12:00 PM EST – 1:30 PM
  • Location: Remote

Meeting recording

Call to Order

Board Members

  • Matt K
  • Chenxi
  • Martin
  • Sherif
  • Owen
  • Matt T
  • Greg Anderson
  • Travis McPeak
  • Matt K – martin approved…

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

New Business

Minutes

BOARD MEETING October 10, 2018 In attendance: Matt K, Chenxi, Martin, Sherif, Owen, Matt T, Greg Anderson, Travis McPeak Approval of Meeting Minutes from 27 September Matt K – martin approved… Meeting minutes from 27 September are approved…

Strategic goals… Andrew - Community …..involvement…and support on the strategic goals… The Strategy is get a good picture of who OWASP is and what it should be … Conferences, meet up and boosting our – remove the certification model…. Balance of professional and commercial Education, is clearly is a pillar …it must be a big strategy… -Chenxi Sherif- new emerging technology…tooling, education and best practices…continue to communicate with the technology and reduce the attack surface area.

Andrew - Education is hugely importance… can we provide Travis, training is very popular… Chenxi – impact on the industry Matt K- parts of asps and top 10 Microsoft donation to the top 10 Andrew – get out of our chamber- get involved in Academia …. Travis is against the 100% split…give back to the chapter… Community involvement is needed and a more holistic approach to the planning of the events. Action item- Karen will rewrite the document..

Eligibility for Board candidates….. safeguarding the foundation from other risks… Review of the document..5th clause to include diversity Action Item post on the web for community input We want Compliance committee charter…. Document was amended so that we can seek volunteers for the committee… and reconsider what this will look like in further years… One more action – call for Feedback. Sherif mentioned additional changes provided by Fiona… by email. Treasurer – hand over…Andrew steps down and nominates Sherif…Owen seconded it and the board voted in favor…effective immediately

Face to face bylaw change from Owen mandatory face to face… first of the year. Each board members should aim

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