Past Meetings

OWASP Board Meeting — October 15, 2019

Official minutes of this Board meeting.

Meeting Details

  • Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019
  • Time: 11:00 AM PDT – 12:30 PM
  • Location: Remote

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

Tom Pappas

  • CPA Audit will start by April 2020 after first quarter
  • Mike will update expenses with Expensify

Mike McCamon

  • Chapters - 273
  • Events 2020
    • San Francisco - contract signed
    • Dublin - contract pending
    • Project Summit - potential for two in 2020
      • First Summit will take place in February
      • Emily is working on locations in Mexico
  • Website - in process, a bit behind schedule.
    • Looking to hire a contractor to do the commerce work
  • 2020 Budget - to be approved no later than November Board call
  • Trademark
    • researching why they declined/rejected OWASP name.

New Business

New Business

  • Board Elections will be announced on the 17th. Dawn will be working to onboard all new Board Members.
  • Dublin Agreement - sent to Board on Monday. Emily and Mike revised it

Motion Executive Director to sign the contract with Ireland Convention Centre to host the Global AppSec Dublin 2020. Owen motions, Ofer seconds


Vote Ofer Maor - Yes Sherif Mansour - Yes Richard Greenberg - Yes Gary Robinson - Yes Chenxi Wang - Yes Owen Pendlebury - Yes Martin Knobloch - Yes (Owen placed vote for Martin)

Passes: 7 - 0

Committees - a staff member will be on each Committee

  • Outreach
  • Chapter
  • Project

Gifts - want them to be restricted gifts

Tom Pappas

  • temporary restricted donations - liability goes on the books
  • Usually 10-15% for administration
  • Usually has a deadline
  • Accounting can do this if they know up front

Mike McCamon

  • We don’t take restricted gifts under $1,000.
  • The Board has already approved this.
  • We receive very few individual donations
  • Action - that the website have an option to easily donate for the diversity program and grants.
  • Ofer Maor: YES
  • Sherif Mansour: YES
  • Richard Greenberg: YES
  • Gary Robinson: YES
  • Chenxi Wang: YES
  • Owen Pendlebury: YES
  • Martin Knobloch: YES

Comments, Announcements, and Other Business

Adjournment

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