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• Printing of OWASP Books
  • We now have all of the books at the printers.
  • I will be picking up the final 2 on Saturday in New York.
  • These are for the 2013 Project Summit.

• Project Leader Workshop Content
  • I have finalized my slides and content.
  • I will be supplying print outs to the attendees.
  • Other than that, I am ready to go.

• 2013 Project Summit
  • I continue to work on organizing the 2013 OWASP Projects Summit.
  • We are now a few days away.
  • I am also working towards promoting the sessions and talks on our social media channels.
  • I hope to get all participants to sign up for each session before the day of the event.

• OWASP Marketing
  • We have now gotten the final files for the Connector e-mail template which is the last piece left.
  • The OWASP Marketing 2013 operational project is now complete.
  • Brand Resources Page

• Grants and Fundraising Intern Summary
  • Kait continues to work hard on her daily tasks every week.
  • You can read her weekly reports by following the link above.
  • She will be joining us in New York to help with the Women in AppSec Program.

• Project Operations Policies
  • I worked to develop a general project spending policy, and some operational project sponsorship guidelines for project leaders.
  • There has been some confusion over what Project Leaders are able to spend funds on, and these guidelines are meant to clarify these points.
  • The guidelines outlined in this policy are meant to provide clear expectations for Leaders.
  • I will be presenting them at the Project Leader Workshop next week.

• Daily Project based queries and requests
  • This has not changed much since I began the post: questions are very similar in nature.
  • Global AppSec questions.
  • Funding queries.
  • Travel availability.
  • Project based administrative help.
  • Project status information.
  • Several project donation questions.
  • Marketing questions.
  • Grant funding questions.
  • OWASP social media updates.
  • What's happening with projects, questions.

General Awards

• OWASP OWTF Project: Brucon 5x5 Award

1. Amount: €5,000.00 (Approx. $6,670.00)
2. Status: Awarded. Congratulations, Abraham Aranguren and all involved in the project, for your award.

Proposals Awarded

• OWASP Guidebooks Proposal

1. Amount: $25,000 USD
2. Status: Awarded. The first payment has been allocated to our project budgets. The second invoice has now been sent to Georgia Tech and payment has been received.
3. OWASP Development Guide Plan
4. OWASP Testing Guide Plan
5. OWASP Code Review Guide Plan

• Google Grants Proposal

1. Amount: $120,000 USD in Adwords Funds
2. Status: Awarded.
3. Note: There is no link to show the proposal for this grant. There was a form that was submitted to Google, and we did not receive a record of this form.

• Google Summer of Code

1. Amount: $5,500
2. Status: Awarded

• Projects breakdown:
  • 4 ZAP Projects: $2,000
  • 4 OWTF Projects: $2,000
  • 1 PHP Security Project: $500
  • 1 Hackademics Project: $500
  • 1 Modsecurity Project: $500
  • Note: Big thank you to Fabio Cerullo for coordinating and managing this award.

• OWASP AppSensor Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $15,000 USD
2. Status: Awarded.

• Total Funds Awarded: $172,170 USD for 2013.

Proposals Denied

• European Commission Grant Proposal

1. Amount: €250,000
2. Status: Denied.

• OWASP OpenSAMM Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $112,000 USD
2. Status: Denied

• OWASP ESAPI Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $25,000 USD
2. Status: Denied

• OWASP ModSecurity CRS Proposal

1. Amount: $30,000 USD
2. Status: Denied

• OWASP OWTF Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $55,800 USD
2. Status: Denied

Current Project Funds

• Chapter and Individual Project Funds
• Project Reboot 2012 Information
• Q1 2013: Funds Allocated to Projects
• Q2 2013: Funds Allocated to Projects
• Q3 2013: Funds Allocated to Projects

Remote Participation Update for 2013 Project Summit

Unfortunately, we were not able to raise enough funds to facilitate remote participation for the 2013 Project Summit. It is certainly an aspect of our summits that we find incredibly important, and we will work hard to make sure remote participation is an option our contributors have in 2014.

Interview with Tom Brennan: AppSec USA 2013

• Mark Miller, upcoming Project Leader for the OWASP Podcast Series, caught up with Tom Brennan to discuss AppSec USA 2013.

Message from Project Leader, Jim Manico: OWASP Podcast 96 and 97

We just release two new OWASP podcasts.

OWASP podcast 96 features Nabil Hannan discussing BSIMM. https://www.owasp.org/download/jmanico/owasp_podcast_96.mp3

OWASP podcast 97 features Les Hazlewood discussing Apache Shiro. https://www.owasp.org/download/jmanico/owasp_podcast_97.mp3

RSS: https://www.owasp.org/download/jmanico/podcast.xml

Message from OWASP ZAP Project Leader, Simon Bennetts

I've created a page on the ZAP wiki which lists all of the people happy to deliver free ZAP talks and training: http://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/wiki/ZapEvangelists

Please reach out to Simon and all other ZAP contributors by e-mailing the ZAP mailing list: [email protected]

2013 Project Summit

• The project summit is only 2 weeks away.
• I urge everyone to add your name to the attendees list if you are interested in a session, or suggest new topics that you would be more interested in attending.
• Please visit the 2013 Project Summit wiki page for more detailed information on how to join in.
• Current daily schedule and session topics include:

Monday: Nov 18th

1. OWASP Projects Review Session
2. OWASP Media Project Session
3. OWASP PHP Security and RBAC Projects: An Introduction
4. OWASP AppSensor 2.0 Hackathon
5. ESAPI Hackathon Session
6. Bug Bounty Hack Session

Tuesday: Nov. 19th

1. OWASP Training Development Session
2. OWASP Academies Development Session
3. Mobile Security Session
4. ESAPI Hackathon Session
5. Bug Bounty Hack Session

Wednesday: Nov. 20th

1. Writing and Documentation Review Session
2. ESAPI Hackathon Session
3. Bug Bounty Hack Session
4. OWASP PCI Toolkit Session
5. OWASP O2 Documentation Session

Thursday: Nov. 21st

1. ZAP Hackathon Session
2. Open SAMM Session
3. ESAPI Hackathon Session
4. Bug Bounty Hack Session

AppSec USA Project Talks

• I have now finalized the schedule for the AppSec USA Project Talks.
• We had to make several adjustments to balance out the schedule.
• Current talk schedule can be found below:

Wednesday: Nov. 20th

1. 10AM - OWASP Project Leader Workshop
2. 11AM - OWASP ESAPI
3. 12PM - OWAS NIST NSTIC IDecosystem Initiative: Initial Discussion Meeting
4. 1PM - OWASP OpenSAMM Talk
5. 2PM - OWASP Education Projects
6. 3PM - OWASP Security Principles Project Talk

Thursday: Nov. 21st

1. 10AM - 12PM - OWASP O2 Platform Talk and Training
2. 12PM - OWASP Testing Guide Talk
3. 1PM - OWASP Development Guide Talk
4. 2PM - OWASP AppSensor Talk
5. 3PM - OWASP Code Review Guide Talk