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I got a lot of funny looks ten years ago when I started talking to people about Wikipedia.
 
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Let’s just say some people were skeptical of the notion that volunteers from all across the world could come together to create a remarkable pool of human knowledge - all for the simple purpose of sharing.
 
  
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I've donated a great deal of my time to OWASP over the last several years. But what really stands out in my mind is how OWASP has given me so much more in return.
  
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A decade after its founding, nearly 400 million people use Wikipedia and its sister sites every month - almost a third of the Internet-connected world.
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Through OWASP email lists and conferences, I've had the chance to interact with some of the brightest minds in the world of web application security.  
  
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It is the 5th most popular website in the world - but Wikipedia isn’t anything like a commercial website. It is a community creation, written by volunteers making one entry at a time. You are part of our community. And I’m writing today to ask you to protect and sustain Wikipedia.
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Through OWASP guides and standards, I've had the chance to gain a deep understanding of the threats that face todays web applications.
  
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Together, we can keep it free of charge and free of advertising. We can keep it open - you can use the information in Wikipedia any way you want. We can keep it growing - spreading knowledge everywhere, and inviting participation from everyone.
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Through OWASP software libraries and other tools, I've had the chance to hone my skills as a developer of secure web applications.
  
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Each year at this time, we reach out to ask you and others all across the Wikimedia community to help sustain our joint enterprise with a modest donation of $20, $35, $50 or more.
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When you sponsor an OWASP leader to attend an OWASP working summit, you do more than help that one individual. Sponsoring an OWASP summit attendee has a ripple effect that benefits the 10's of thousands of developers and security professionals who utilize OWASP resources to reduce application risk on a global scale.  
  
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If you value Wikipedia as a source of information - and a source of inspiration - I hope you’ll choose to act right now.
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My OWASP affiliation over the past several years has been a gift, one that I am very grateful for.
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Latest revision as of 17:23, 12 January 2011

Please help fund the participation of OWASP Leaders and key industry players at the next OWASP Summit

Personal Jim M 920.jpg

This page is part of an OWASP fund-raising effort to help to bring the best talent in the world to the OWASP Summit 2011:

If you want to create one, copy the content from this sample request and create a page with the format: Summit_2011/Funding/{YOUR_NAME}

An appeal from Jim Manico (OWASP Podcast Project Leader)

I've donated a great deal of my time to OWASP over the last several years. But what really stands out in my mind is how OWASP has given me so much more in return.

Through OWASP email lists and conferences, I've had the chance to interact with some of the brightest minds in the world of web application security.

Through OWASP guides and standards, I've had the chance to gain a deep understanding of the threats that face todays web applications.

Through OWASP software libraries and other tools, I've had the chance to hone my skills as a developer of secure web applications.

When you sponsor an OWASP leader to attend an OWASP working summit, you do more than help that one individual. Sponsoring an OWASP summit attendee has a ripple effect that benefits the 10's of thousands of developers and security professionals who utilize OWASP resources to reduce application risk on a global scale.

My OWASP affiliation over the past several years has been a gift, one that I am very grateful for. 

<paypal>Summit 2011</paypal>


Why Sponsor the Summit Participants

As the face of application threats continues to grow, we need your help. This February, we begin a new era of our mission by convening at the OWASP Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Many of our attendees fund their own way in order to spend a week of work, research and talks that will shape the next iteration of tools and deliverables for the global security community to share. As part of this effort, we need your financial support in order to get all of our top leaders present. This personal request is one that asks you to consider any monetary support for mobilizing our global leadership community to convene in less than a month. Please act today and you'll help to support the ongoing efforts of a growing non-profit that has given so much and is ready to give much more through its tools, research, frameworks, and much more.

How Can You Help?

As of January 10, 2011, after having spent much for organizing our global summit, we are still short of our goal. The current shortfall is what separates many of our top leaders/contributors from attending the Summit in February. If you are a company and would like to sponsor a leader, you can make a difference with your pledge today. Funds are used to subsidize their travel to and accommodations at the week-long working session. Our leaders and top contributors selflessly donate their time and Application Security knowledge to provide guides, tools, and other resources that benefit governments and companies all over the world. If you have benefited from the free materials at OWASP, please consider supporting our Summit today!

Here are some of the leaders/contributor that need your support in order to be present at the Summit:

Name and funding requirement

Name Projected Cost
Mateo Martinez
Anurag Agarwal
Talal AlBasha
Vishal Garg
Antonio Fontes
Abraham Kang
Gandhi Aryavalli
Mohd Fazli Azran
Steven van der Baan
Mike Zusman
Raul Siles
Jeremy Long
Ferdinand Vroom TBC
Zaki Akhmad TBC
Konstantinos Papapanagiotou TBC
Chris Schmidt TBC
Vasileios Vlachos TBC
Daniel Brzozowski TBC
Carlos Serrao TBC
Romain Gaucher TBC
Sherif Koussa TBC 

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