October 14, 2015

Dial In Info

Notice of Recording

• Notice to all attendees - board meetings are recorded and publicly available as of March, 2013
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• Recording of 25 September 2015 OWASP Board Meeting
• Recording of 14 October 2015 OWASP Board Meeting

Time

Oct 14 OWASP Board meeting, Start-time is 14:00-15:00 PDT

Location

Teleconference Information:

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Attendance Tracker

Board Meeting Attendance Tracker

Meeting Minutes

• 14 October 2015 OWASP Board Meeting Minutes

Reading Material

It is a requirement as a board member to fully read all material prior to the start of the meeting

Meeting Agenda

Call to Order /OWASP Mission

• Administrative (List of attendees and Agenda bashing (only if last-minute changes to the agenda are needed) (5 min)

Reports

Chairman's Report - Tobias Gondrom

• structuring of meetings (assign durations to each point) - 1min
• remove the section on chairman's and role reports and move to a topic based agenda (3min)
• Start of Budgeting for 2016 discussion & timeline (2min)
• start of review of Strategic Goals for 2015 and Discussion on Strategic Goals for 2016 - timeline (2min)
• evotes procedure: how many days should we wait between second of motion to give all board members time to raise discussion?

Vice Chairmain's Report - Josh Sokol

• Working on new policies to encourage spending down of chapter and project funds. Proposal under new business.

Treasurer Report - Fabio Cerullo

• Topic 1

Secretary Report - Matt Konda

• Participated in Project Summit
• Working on DevOps oriented projects including:
  • Tool
  • Documentation
• Working on developer documentation.
• OWASP asked back to Chicago Coder Conference
• Presented at QA Testing conference and submitted for QUEST a national conference.

Updated from Members at Large - Michael Coates, Andrew van der Stock & Jim Manico

• Update on bylaws - Andrew van der Stock
• Update on Education strategic goal - Andrew van der Stock
• Update on scope of wiki update project and problem - Jim Manico
• Update on project summit participation and value - Jim Manico

Reports

• Executive Director/Operations Update - October Report P.Ritchie
  • Summary ppt of Sept & YTD P&L & Balance sheet
  • Detail Excel format Sept & YTD 2015 P&L, Balance Sheet, US/EU
  • 2015 Q4 Goals & Deliverables for Ops Staff in Table format

Items below are from Sept. BoD meeting, To be updated.

• • Community Manager Update - Noreen Whysel Strategic Goals & Metrics for Chapters / Volunteer Program & More
  • Director Update - Kate Hartmann - Kate Hartmann Update
  • Project Coordinator -Claudia Aviles Casanovas Update - October Status Report
  • Membership Update - Membership Report
  • IT Update: OWASP IT Infrastructure Fall 2015 - Matt Tesauro Report

Old Business

All active board proposals are listed here

• [Josh Sokol] - Policy to Encourage Spending of Chapter Funds

New Business

All active board proposals are listed here

• [Jim Manico] - Benchmark Project Controversy
  • Concerns about the OWASP Benchmark Project brand usage from certain vendors
  • Concerns about the OWASP project approval process
  • Input from Simon B: http://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-board/2015-October/016254.html
  • Questions on Conflict of Interest to Benchmark project Questions from Michael Coates Responses from Project Leader Dave Wichers
• [Tobias Gondrom] - New Proposal: Building on Michael's and your comment about rewarding active projects. I very much like that idea! And I would have a friendly additional proposal.
  • Proposal 11: Any project newly reaching lab status receives a one-time extra USD500 into their project account. Any project newly reaching flagship status receives a one-time extra USD1000 into their project account.
• [Josh Sokol] - Proposal to Eliminate "At Large" Board Positions

Adjournment

• Next meeting date/time: