OWASP Board Meetings June Agenda

Agenda for OWASP Board Meeting: 06/03/2008

Review of Action Items from last month’s meeting - 20 minutes

• Update on details of Working Groups (Dinis & Tom)
• More clear guidelines for OWASP Projects? (Dinis & Paulo)
• Write and post job description for OWASP Director (Dave & Alison)
• Write a proposal and send to board about letting corporate members choose which project their funds go to (Dinis)
• Draft an email to send to OWASP leaders concerning moving to a branded OWASP Blog, maybe with Google (Dinis)
  • http://theowasp.ning.com/
  • http://houseofhackers.ning.com/group/owasp
• Update on Local Chapter finance model (Tom)
• Update governance/owas bylaws form to include the requirement of an 3rd party audit every 3 years (Tom/Dave)

OWASP Financials - 5 minutes

• Audit is scheduled for first week in June (Dave)
• OWASP 200k investment plan
  • 150k: OWASP EU Summit
  • 35k: 4x Graduates from xyz University
  • 15k: Working Group in DC
• OWASP London Office
  • New employee to focus on OWASP chapters and help Paulo?
  • Office Space in London (from an 'OWASP' friend, together with Ivan from Breach Security)

Conferences - 15 minutes

• Recap of Belgium Conference. What went well? What should go better next time?
• Front Range OWASP Conference June 10th
• India Conference
• NY Conference
• OWASP_EU_Summit_2008
• EU 'Conference Travel Pack' - Paulo to participate in 4 conferences in Europe with the 'OWASP Conference pack & stand' (same for US (there was a guy at in Belgium that wanted to do it))

Chapter Happenings - 10 minutes

• New Chapters
• Chapter leader changes
• Inactive chapters
• Chapter assistance

Miscellaneous - 20 minutes

• Need to define the existing and potential additional board member roles for guidance of the organization. Once these are defined, we should have a published wiki page with the roles and responsibilities of persons paid or unpaid.