OWASP Board Meeting — April 29, 2019

Tom Pappas

• March has been closed - 1st Quarter
• Since the budget has been approved, I have set up the reports based on monthly numbers so we have something to compare to.
• We are under in revenue and under in expenses
• Revenue - under in revenue because this year on conferences will be in 3rd Quarter.
• We are short in operating cash by $148k, should adjust later in the year due to the timing of the conferences
• We will have to dip into the reserve funds
• Based on the Tel Aviv projected numbers, we will have a larger gap.
• As we have discussed several times in the previous years, the splits with the conferences continues to put a strain on our finances.

Mike McCamon - Resolution proposed by the Interim Executive Director that would direct staff to implement an Attributed Giving policy that restricts donations and membership dues splits to gifts $1,000 and above. This policy will, as soon as is practically possible, sunset the practice of allowing membership dues being allocated to chapters and projects.

Motion - Implement an Attributed Giving Policy that restricts donations and membership dues splits to gifts $1,000 and above. Anything less than $1,000 will have not opportunity to allocate. Anything over $1,000 will have the option to allocate. Martin Knobloch motions and Owen Pendlebury seconds.

Votes

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

Vote Passes: 6-0

Trademark Update - Mike McCamon

• We engaged the law firm and received the draft filings
• Mike McCamon to review the drafts
• Mike needs to do further historical use of names
• It will take 2-3 months to get a response from US.
• Law firm suggested we wait to file EU until US is done.
• Once trademark is approved we will ask regional and local events to revise the name of their conferences
• Trademark names
  • OWASP
  • Open Web Application Security Projects
  • Global AppSec
  • AppSec Days
• Sherif - do we have the actual numbers on the cost. Since it was voted on lowering the number to $40k, instead of $75k. Mike did not have an exact number but is not above $40k

Open Security Summit - Mike McCamon

• Plan is to send the organizers a MOU
• We will plan to have $75k available for this event
• Any project leaders and contributors can request funding.
• We will promote the event

The plan is to have 2 events each year where Project Leaders and Contributors get together to work on projects.

We need to start planning for 2020, since we should have dates a year prior.

Training - Chenxi Wang

• What are our thought on partnering with companies to have trainings
• Martin stated that we can not promote any individual vendor/company
• Owen - if it is a free training for the community okay, but if it is a paid training, no.
• It was suggested to Chenxi to put together a proposal so the Board can review and discuss at a later time. E-Votes
• Dawn requested that if there are any e-votes done to make sure that the information is sent to her, so she can post it on the wiki.

Board Meetings

• Martin Knobloch - reminder that going forward the Board Meetings will be on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.