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CommunityUpdates/2014-05-27
From OWASP
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- Tuesday May 27, 2014
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OWASP'er Mentions
- New leadership at OWASP Ireland Chapter
- Fiona Collins is passing the leadership torch to Owen Pendlebury (chapter lead role)
- New board member at OWASP Ireland Chapter
- Darren Fitzpatrick has stepped down from the board. Mark Denihan will join as a board member.
Thanks to everyone for their past and future efforts on the chapters & projects
- Very active OWASP'ers on the wiki (Top 10 most active - non-admins, alphabetical)
- Thanks to the hard work of OWASP Algeria chapter leader "Mennouchi Islam Azeddine", OWASP has contributed to the success of the event "Call For Tech" (http://callfortech.net/) that took place at the University of the city of Constantine(Algeria) from the 4th to 11th of May 2014.
Upcoming Events
- 2014 OWASP Elections! - Submit your candidacy
- OWASP Calendar
Upcoming Chapter Events
- 5th May - Mennouchi Islam Azeddine - OWASP PHP Security Training
- 5th May - Enrico Branca - Introduction to secure coding using python
- 6th May - Mennouchi Islam Azeddine / Assem Chelli - OWTF Pentesting
Framework
- 6th May - Enrico Branca - SSL security and attacks
- May 27 - Peru: OWASP Perú Chapter Meeting
- June 11 - USA: Rhode Island non-attributable honeypot system via fly by night VPS providers
- June 12 - USA: Omaha PCI 3.0, DSS Req 6, Secure Coding
- June 13 - Spain Chapter Meeting (Agenda link)
- June 16 - Israel Chapter Meeting
Full list of worldwide chapters, OWASP Events Calendar
Chapter Info
- Running a chapter and want your event featured in Community Update and on OWASP home page? Just add it to the OWASP events calendar
- Chapter Funds - Did you know you chapter has funds to use?
- Need funding for an OWASP activity? Check out the funding page
Conferences
- OWASP Latam Tour - April 21, 2014 - May 9, 2014
- Starting in Chile, then Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Guatemala, Columbia, Argentina
- OWASP AppSec EU - 2014 June 23, 2014 - June 26, 2014
- Cambridge, UK
- OWASP AppSec USA - 2014 Sept. 16, 2014 - Sept. 19, 2014
- Denver, Colorado
Full conference calendar
Notable Project Activity
New Activity
- OWASP_AppSensor_Project Book v2 Released!
- PDF free for download File:Owasp-appsensor-guide-v2.pdf
- On demand printing available at Lulu $8.50
- Thanks to authors: Colin Watson, Dennis Groves, John Melton
- Thanks to contributors: Josh Amishav-Zlatin, Ryan Barnett, Michael Coates, Craig Munson, Jay Reynolds
- COMMENTS REQUESTED: New Project Framework
- Goals are to clearly define project framework for contributors and community while promoting both innovation and quality.
- Frameworks to include definitions, how projects will be reviewed, and how they will be supported by the foundation.
- How to Fund a project - preview on additional information about funding a project - documentation coming soon
- ZAP 2.3.1 Released. This is a bugfix release - for more details see the release notes
- OWASP Node Goat Project - First stable release on May 6! - See https://github.com/OWASP/NodeGoat/releases
- Thanks to Chetan Karande for his efforts on this project
- OWASP Python Security Project (http://www.pythonsecurity.org/) has decided to support the "Proposal Project Review QA Approach" (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Proposal_Project_Review_QA_Approach) by creating a tool to satisfy the proposal's requirements.
Exciting Projects to Checkout
Activities Looking for Volunteers
OWASP Wiki
Pages that Need Attention
- OWASP RegEx - Needs some regular expression expertise. Focus on ensuring updated with applicable regex dos concerns
Editing Tips & Tricks
Wiki Clean Up Crew
- Help Needed - Join mailing list to discuss
- https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Wiki_Cleanup
Wiki-Fu
- Wiki editing tip of the week - Creating Internal Wiki Links
- When creating internal wiki links use the format [[page | text to display ]] instead of [https://www.owasp.org text to display]
- Example - Create a link to the membership page https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Membership
- Correct - Become a member <-- [[Membership | Become a member]]
- Incorrect - Become a member <-- [https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Membership Become a member]
- More info on internal links
- See recent changes made anywhere on the wiki here - recent changes
- See special pages for more advanced queries of the wiki
- Wiki has an api - owasp api
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