GlobalMembershipCommittee Notes 20100419

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Attendees

- PRESENT -

Michael Coates

Dan Cornell

Sebastien Deleersnyder

- NOT PRESENT -

Stephen Craig Evans

Kate Hartmann

Membership Status

March 2010 Numbers

Total Number of Individual Memberships: 927

New Memberships in March: 67

Renewals in March: 13

Lost memberships in March (did not renew): 54

March Income from Individual Memberships: $4000

Portion allocated to local chapters: $1340

March Profit from Individual Memberships: $2660

Total Number of Organization Memberships: 32

New Memberships in March: 0

Renewals in March: 4 (BAH, Cigital, Symantec, Fishnet)

Lost memberships in March (did not renew): 1 (Breach)

March Income from Corporate Memberships: $20,000

Portion allocated to local chapters: $2,000

March Profit from Corporate Memberships: $18,000

Agenda

• Review membership numbers
• Discuss membership kits see April Board Minutes
• Corporate Membership Kit
  • Tangible benefit/reminder of OWASP
  • Quarterly OWASP Book
  • Printed Newsletter
  • OWASP T-Shirt
• Corporate "gold" bundle membership
  • Discussed during OWASP DC
• OWASP Presence at Security Conferences
  • Are we visible? (blackhat, secwest, hack in the box, Shmoocon, etc)
• More outreach to chapter leadership, project leadership
• New membership drive

Minutes

• Membership Status
  • Yay, almost 1000 members
  • New membership drive push

• Membership Kits
  • Agreed that membership kits would be modified as follows to minimize cost
    • Memberhip kit will only contain an OWASP T-Shirt
    • An electronic copy of the membership card and certificate will be e-mail'ed to the member
    • For memberships created as a result of conference registration the user will receive their t-shirt at the conference. This will minimize the shipping costs for our international members.
    • The other items of the membership kit will be eliminated (printed badge, badge holder, sticker)
  • Savings: $4.34 per kit --> 22% savings for domestic membership kits and 16% savings for international kits
  • Additional Savings: Possibly reduces Kate's time and significantly reduces international shipping costs (for conference originated membership)

• Creation of Organizational Supporter Kits
  • Purpose: To provide regular information to organizational supporters regarding OWASP
  • Each organizational supporter will receive an OWASP kit each quarter
  • Contents
    • 2 copies of an OWASP book printed from lulu (OWASP Top 10 is first book)
    • 1 glossy printout of most recent OWASP newsletter
  • ACTION ITEM: KATE - We need to determine an estimated cost for this and check we have mailing addresses for all organizational members

• Organizational Supporter Contact
  • Purpose: To establish regular communication between OWASP and organizational supporters
  • All of the organizational supporters will be logically divided by region or established contacts between the OWASP membership committee and OWASP board members (as needed).
  • Each quarter the OWASP contact point will call and speak with the organizational supporter contact point
  • Goal:
    • Establish and build relationship with OWASP
    • Ensure supporter is aware of local chapter events
    • Discuss how OWASP and supporter can further work together
  • ACTION ITEM: MICHAEL - Build list and perform first pass of division

• Organizational GOLD Supporter / Bundle
  • Discussing idea of creating a bundled supporter package.
  • Goal is to allow an org to use a single PO for the entire year for multiple OWASP "purchases"
  • Ideas for bundle include:
    • Organizational Supporter
    • Conference Attendance
    • Banner Ads
    • Conference Sponsorships
    • Local Chapter donations
  • Need to determine what % discount
  • Need to create sample bundles and possibly offer ala carte style bundling

• OWASP Presence at Conferences
  • Is OWASP visible at big security conferences? (BlacHat, HitB, CanSecWest, etc)
  • What about developer conferences?
  • Seba proposed OWASP contact conference organizers to establish official relationship. This is something connections committee is likely handling.
  • ACTION ITEM: SEBA - Follow up with connection committee to see if they are doing this

ACTION ITEM: SEBA Follow up with Google

ACTION ITEM: DAN Follow up with Facebook