June 7, 2010

Agenda

1-866-534-4754 Code: "OWASP" (69277)

Vote Required

• Move monthly conference call to first Monday of the month 12:00Noon EST
• Revised Rules for 'OWASP Commercial Services' (by Dinis)
• Proposed Rules for OWASP Board Members responsibilities at OWASP conferences (by Jeff)
• Proposed Workflow for 'OWASP Board Members RPF' (by Dinis)
• Proposed model to track OWASP Board Members expenses separately and make them independent from Local Chapters (by Dinis)
• 15k Funding for the ' Proposal to operationalise OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ Training activities and the concept of ‘OWASP Academies' (see details about at the end of this page) (by Dinis)
• Location of the 2010 Summit will be... CA? DC? Portugal? Other location?

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Support Material

Proposal to operationalise OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ Training activities and the concept of ‘OWASP Academies’

Activities:

• Main focus on:
  • Normalization and ‘packaging’ of the OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ events so that they can easily be executed by the local OWASP Chapters
    • Creation of the ‘OWASP Training Pack’ (book + pdf + dvd) with the materials developed by successful deliveries of OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ events
  • Establishment of working relationships with ‘OWASP friendly’ Universities:
    • starting with the OWASP Chapter-lead training courses, but with a view to evolve those courses into OWASP ‘Academies’
  • Negotiate potential sponsorship opportunities for the OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ events
  • Logistical organization of OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ training activities:
    • multiple individual OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ training events
    • (try to) organize a ‘OWASP Tour’ of 20x training events in Oct/Nov 2010 (with US trainers)

• Work closely with multiple OWASP Committees, namely on:
  • OWASP Chapters Committee: the ‘soft’ (for now) requirement to implement the OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ training courses
  • OWASP Education Committee namely: development and packaging of OWASP Training materials and the development of the ‘OWASP Academies concept’
  • OWASP Connections Committee: namely with its efforts to expose the development community to OWASP Training materials
  • OWASP Projects Committee: creating Training materials from Key OWASP Projects

Resources required:

• 1x ‘Project Manager’ (to be responsible for the execution for the proposed activities)
  • Hired as an independent contractor
  • contract length: 3 months time
  • must be based in London or Lisbon
• Operational capabilities
  • Materials Production (for example editing)
  • Marketing materials
  • travel expenses

Budget

• 15,000 USD
  • 9,000 USD : 3 months contract (3,000 USD/month)
  • 6:000 USD: Operational expenses

Specifications

• The human resource must have wiki edition experience
• recommended experience
  • project management
  • education experience
  • deal making
  • customer relationships
  • ideally a senior employee

Additional notes:

• This resource will be directly managed by OWASP Board Member Dinis Cruz and reports directly to the OWASP Board.