OWASP Board Meeting — March 18, 2019

Mike McCamon - Registered Trademark Effort

• An attorney in Israel that Ofer recommended reviewed and sent quote.
• Reduced the scope of work
• Used US attorney - $25k - $28k
• Agreement signed
• Deposit done for $6k
• Trademark names for US and Europe
  • OWASP
  • Open Web Application Security Project
  • Global AppSec
  • AppSec Days

Mike McCamon - Draft of 2019 Budget

• Budget shows 25% growth in revenue and expenses
• Begin to allocate more funds to Projects
• Marketing website refresh in second half of year
• Discussed travel expenses (update chapter handbook)

Motion - to approve the 2019 Budget with stipulation to P&L - line item for trademark from $75k to $40k. Martin Knobloch motions and Sherif Mansour seconds

Vote

Chenxi Wang - Yes Gary Robinson- Yes Owen Pendlebury - Yes Ofer Maor - Yes Richard Greenberg - Yes Sherif Mansour - Yes Martin Knobloch - Yes

Motion passes - 7-0

Mike McCamon - Attributed Giving Policy

• Research number of gifts and sizes
• Only gifts of $2500 and above can allocate
• Mike with put potential policy in writing before Board votes

Staff Update

• Matt Tesauro has resigned, he last day is March 29th

Global AppSec Tel Aviv 2019

• Training and Registration is open
• First round of talks are completed
• Call for Papers - good
• Sponsorship is slow
• Marketing - not good, we need to increase marketing.
• AppSec Tel Aviv 2018 website is still present, needs to be removed
• Kelly is marketing event and sponsorship is at $61k