February 2023 Continuing Strategy Meeting - Projects - Agenda/Minutes

Meeting Details

  • Date: 23 February 2023
  • Time: 12PM US Eastern, UTC 1700 convert
  • Location: Remote
  • Call-in: Zoom Meeting

Agenda

CALL TO ORDER

Board Members

  • Glenn ten Cate
  • Bil Corry
  • Avi Douglen
  • Grant Ongers
  • Matt Tesauro

Guests

  • Andrew van der Stock

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

OLD BUSINESS

STRATEGIC DISCUSSIONS

Discuss previously parked planned activities:

  • Future Board Structure

    Grant presented the “aspirational” structure of the board today as being elected to be representative and democratic and as being strategic and not operational. The concerns with all those aspects (and the reasons they are aspirational) was discussed too.

    current board structure

    The board discussed possible options to modify this structure including possibly chosing to appoint seats rather than being elected to them - either for all the seats as per the Open SSF board (large donors are awarded seats) - or for a more moderate approach where the ED appoints advisors to the board, up to two, that would provide professional board experience.

Activities parked for the next session

  • Strategic plan for raising funding
  • Strategic plan for Projects
  • Strategic plan for Events
  • Role of Committees
  • Tooling for the future
  • Staffing for the future

ADJOURNMENT

Adjournment motion

The next general Board meeting is on 28 February 2023, at 7:30pm Central European Time convert.

However, Glenn proposed a hackathon style session to try drive more movement towards a plan. Grant purposed that Glenn should put a Doodle together for that to see if we could get enough of the board involved for that.

“It is moved, and seconded to adjourn. Those in favor, say “aye””

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