Global Conferences Committee/2011 Committee Plan

2011 Goals

2011 Comprehensive Committee Plan | 2010 Plan

1. Have a Global Appsec in NA, SA, EU, Asia in 2011
2. Promote OWASP Projects/Initiatives at OWASP Conferences
3. Enhance Services for Conference Planners
4. Reach out to developers (have 20% of attendees in a dev position)
5. Reach out to non-members (have 70% of attendees at cons non-members)
6. Bring more into the fold (Generate 300 new/renewed members at conferences)
7. Streamline Sponsorships (Global Conference Sponsors, Targeted Conference Sponsors)
8. Revise GCC Governance
9. Have a profit of $200k in 2011 across all conferences

Major Initiatives

Initiative	Priority	Associated Goals	Description	Status	Deadline	Assignees
Revise GCC Governance	1	8	Generate self governance document for voting rules, quorum and other functional committee requirements	Complete - Global Conferences Committee Governance	January 2011	All Committee Members
OWASP Conference Management System (help)	1	1, 3	Develop a system to take in applications for all non-chapter meeting events, vet them, and schedule them. This system shall serve as the "official" registration path for all events and allow the GCC to get a firm grip on the OWASP Event Calendar.	Preparing for Release	Release - 3/5/2011	Mark (Code), Lucas & Neil (Alpha Testing, Requirements)
OWASP Global Conference Sponsors	2	3, 7	Provide unified sponsorship mechanism for all Global AppSec conferences. This will help us plan our conference revenue annually and help sponsors plan for their spending (identified as an issue by several vendors). This is intended to augment, not replace individual conference sponsorships.	Released 2011 Global Sponsorship Packages	Feb 2011	Richard, All Review
OWASP AppSec Track	3	2	Joint venture with the GPC. The track would consist of a cadre (10-20) of speakers from inew/high profile OWASP projects. The GCC would manage these speakers through an internal call for papers that would be vetted by the GCC/GPC for some of our best speakers from high profile projects. As a new conference requests an OWASP Speaking track (or for Global AppSec conferences, this will be required) the GCC would reach out to the selected presenters to verify their availability for the event and provide a list of 6-7 speakers to the local event coordinators for the schedule.	Planning for AppSecUSA release in Sept.	June 2011	Ralph
OWASP Marketing at Conferences	3	4,5,6	Promote OWASP at targeted industry and developer events. Provide OWASP support and schwag for OWASP booths at other conferences	Applications accepted via OCMS	In progress	Mark
OWASP Conference Marketing - Attendees	3	4,5,6	Provide additional mechanisms for marketing conferences to attendees	None	TBD	Neil
OWASP Conference Marketing - Sponsors	3	4,5,6	Provide additional mechanisms for marketing conferences to Sponsors	None	TBD	Neil, Richard
Conference Web Marketing	4	3	Obtain Twitter accounts, domain names, and @owasp.org email addresses for use by approved conferences. See Conference Planner Resources	Complete	Complete	Mark
Central Conference Support Services	4	3	RegOnline is setup. Investigate costs for hiring a conference organizer.	RegOnline - Complete Conference Organizer - Investigate	TBD	All
OWASP Short URLS	5	3	Provide short URLs on the OWASP website (e.g. https://owasp.org/AppSecBR) to make it easier to access content on the wiki, especially in emails and the like	Need to investigate with Larry	TBD	Ralph
Regional targeted mailing lists	5	3	Provide email lists for targeted, regional email distributions. Only GlobalAppSec conferences will be advertised on OWASP-ALL	Need to investigate leveraging Salesforce for this.	TBD	Ralph
OWASP Merchandise Model	6	3,9	Provide OWASP Merchandise for sale at conferences	May be a bit OBE as Kate has established something similar already. May just need an "inventory" we can send places.	TBD	None