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April 5, 2012 SB Report
From OWASP
Sarah Baso - Activity for March 2012 (Prepared for April 5, 2012 Board Meeting)
Chapters Committee
General Committee Info
- Committee Membership: No changes, currently 5 members: Seba Deleersnyder, Tin Zaw, Josh Sokol, Ivy Zhang, and Gustavo Barbato
- Committee Chair: Josh Sokol
- March Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 & 20 March 2012
- 2012 Chapters Committee Budget - $17,257.80 of $25,000 remaining ($7,742.29 spent).
Major Activities/Projects (in addition to attending monthly committee meetings, taking & posting meeting minutes):
- Ongoing - Work with Kate Hartmann to ensure that chapter-related requests through Contact Us Form are addressed in a timely fashion.
- Ongoing - Setting up new chapters -- @owasp.org email accounts, wiki page, mailing list, add to leader mailing list, and ensure chapter appears on regonline chapter list.
- Ongoing - Respond to various chapter leader questions/requests via email
- Ongoing - Manage OWASP merchandise requests via google doc, including business cards.
- Coordinating Chapters Workshops at 4 Global AppSec Events and possibly AppSec India. Workshop in Sydney - expecting between 15 & 20 people
- Completed collection of Chapter Handbook acknowledgements and inventory of all active chapters & chapter leaders (Q1 goal)
- Responses to Chapter Handbook Acknowledgement form: 334 leaders, 180 Chapters
- Active Chapters: 180
- Active Chapter Leaders/Board Members: 388
- Estimated Chapters determined as inactive as result of inventory: 15
New Chapters and Chapter restarts in March: 6
- Baltimore - Michael Hixon
- Bucaramanga, Colombia - Diego Ademir
- Maceio, Brazil - Thalysson Sarmento
- Ghana - THodore Sagoe
- Johns Hopkins University - Catsal Bakshi
- Oman - Muhammad Haroon
Conferences Committee
General Committee Info
- Committee Membership: New member - Lorna Alamri, currently 7 members: Mark Bristow, Ralph Durkee, Richard Greenberg, Lucas Ferreira, John Wilander, Mohd Fazli Azran, and Lorna Alamri.
- Committee Chair: Mark Bristow
- March Committee Meeting Minutes: 2012 14 March
- Global Conferences Committee Budget - $32,618.82 of $40,000 remaining ($7381.18 spent).
Major Activities/Projects (in addition to attending monthly committee meetings, taking & posting meeting minutes):
- 2013 Summit Planning - 2 meetings in early March
- Soliciting and coordinating communication with sponsors for AppSec DC and Appsec APAC
- Ongoing - Updated and monitored google form for tracking schwag requests and monitor OCMS for events that have requested schwag but not entered request into google form.
- Ongoing - Work with Konik, Kate, Rocksport, Zazzle, Lulu, and other misc. vendors to fulfull merchandise and conference requests.
Upcoming Events
AppSec DC - Regional
- Budget
- Registration #s - 315 people registered for conference (140 Paid, 175 Comps), 62 people registered for paid training
- Sponsorship income $43,000
- Sponsors: Aspect Security, Securicon, Mandiant, Trustwave, Codenomicon, WhiteHat, nVisium, Bayshore Networks, Core Security, Secure Ideas
- Estimated Conference Profit: $15,000 USD
AppSec APAC - Global
- Budget
- Registration #s: 48 people registered for conference, 23 people registered for paid training
- Sponsorship income $34,000; Sponsors: Fortify/HP, AppSecure, Imperva, Trustwave, Content Security, GA Systems, Ionize
- Sponsor Information Pack
- Schedule Posted
- Estimated Conference Loss - $20,000 USD
AppSec Europe Research - Global
- Budget
- Sponsors - F5, Cigital, Trustwave(Global), Gotham Digital
- Updates - CFP and CFT released
AppSec India - Regional
- event website
- Budget
- Sponsors - Torrid
- Expected attendance - 500+
- Update - need to review their sponsorship document and find out how they will be handling/processing money for the event
AppSec USA - Global
- Budget
- Sponsors - Aspect Security, Trustwave (Global & Lanyard), IBM, NetSpi
- Update - team is finalizing website, CFP and CFT to be released soon
AppSec Latam - Global
- Budget
- Sponsors - Trustwave (Global & Lanyard)
- Update - Finalizing venue contract and determining best way to handle financing for event.