OWASP Operating Plan 2024 - Membership

Introduction

Membership is one of key areas that drives chapters, events, education, and projects. Without a healthy and active membership, our Board cannot replenish itself, and we will suffer from a lack of new ideas. Membership is a key method that individuals can support OWASP’s mission by becoming a financial member, which is essentially a donation to our mission.

Goals

April 2024 membership: 6347 financial members, 1556 complimentary members, 7903 total members

  • 7000 financial members by the end of 2024, with a stretch goal of 7,500 members
  • Four membership drives in 2024
  • $215,000 in individual membership revenue
  • $125,000 in membership fundraising
  • Replacement Association Membership Platform by May 2024

Program Deliverables

  • Replacement Association Membership Platform
    • Workflows to disable leaders whose membership drops
    • GitHub user removed from when membership drops
    • Meetup user removed from when membership drops
  • Leaders as members by September 2024
    • Workflows to disable leaders whose membership drops
  • Old GMail accounts cleaned up (more than 13 months old)
  • Bulk membership discounts for Corporates

Membership Benefits

  • Promote membership benefits to OWASP members
  • Market membership benefits to OWASP Corporate Supporters

Membership website updates

  • Update the membership website to include live OWASP projects
  • Update the membership website to include member only discounts from Corporate Supporters
  • Update the membership website to link to the data sheets for corporate support, events, projects, and chapters

Membership Drives

  • Four membership drives in 2024

Data Sheet

  • Develop a data sheet for Membership with a QR code to the join membership page

Fundraising

  • 20th Anniversary Donation and Blog Post
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