Past Meetings

OWASP Board Meeting — September 25, 2019

Official minutes of this Board meeting.

Meeting Details

  • Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
  • Time: 8:00 PM GMT+2 – 9:30 PM
  • Location: Remote

Meeting recording

Call to Order

Board Members

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

Guests

  • Mike McCamon
  • Tom Pappas
  • Kelly Santalucia
  • Dawn Aitken
  • Emily Berman
  • Lisa Jones
  • Sibah Poede
  • Harold Blankenship

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

Reports

Reports

Financial

  • Revenue to date $1.391k
  • Based on budget, revenue is under by $528k
  • Based on budget, expenses is under by $879k
  • Events is attendance is low
  • Events revenue is behind by $110k
  • Chapter funds
    • $892k US
    • EU $60k
  • $403k cash balance for operating reserve, will drop due to Global AppSec expenses
  • Global AppSec expenses are down by $500k
  • Sherif requests a year to year report of Global expenses

Global AppSec Events

Motion: beginning January 1, 2020 the Foundation has decided to change the profit splits of the Global AppSec events. The split will be 90% to the Foundation and 10% to the Chapters. The Chapter will have the option to give the funds back to the Foundation or the Community Fund. If there is no current active Chapter in the area the full 100% will be given to the Foundation. Ofer Maor motions, Richard Greenberg seconds

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

Passes: 6-0

Board Meetings

Motion: the Board will have two face to face meetings each calendar year which will be held in conjunction with the Global AppSec events. Ofer Maor motions, Owen Penblebury seconds

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

Passes: 7-0

Motion: the Board is to have a 4 hour video conference call in January each year in order to onboard new members, set strategy and assign Board Member roles. Ofer Maor motions, Owen Pendblebury seconds.

Vote: Ofer Maor - Yes Sherif Mansour - No Richard Greenberg - Yes Gary Robinson - Yes Chenxi Wang - Yes Owen Pendlebury - Yes Martin Knobloch - Yes

Passes: 6-1

The following Board Members will be in charge of the following:

  • Marketing - Chenxi
  • Membership - Ofer
  • Developer Outreach - Martin
  • Project Focus - Sherif
  • Improve Finances - Gary
  • Perception - Martin
  • Process Improvement - Owen
  • Community Empowerment - Richard
  • Ofer Maor: YES
  • Owen Pendlebury: YES
  • Richard Greenberg: YES
  • Gary Robinson: YES
  • Sherif Mansour: YES
  • Chenxi Wang: YES
  • Ofer Maor: YES
  • Owen Pendlebury: YES
  • Richard Greenberg: YES
  • Gary Robinson: YES
  • Sherif Mansour: YES
  • Chenxi Wang: YES
  • Martin Knobloch: YES
  • Ofer Maor: YES
  • Sherif Mansour: NO
  • Richard Greenberg: YES
  • Gary Robinson: YES
  • Chenxi Wang: YES
  • Owen Pendlebury: YES
  • Martin Knobloch: YES

New Business

No items.

Comments, Announcements, and Other Business

Adjournment

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