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Agenda

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Follow up from May

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)

Committee Updates

Education

Conferences

Industry

Connections

Projects

Chapters

Membership

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.