OWASP Board Meetings April09 Agenda

Membership Update

INDIVIDUALS

• Total Number of Individual Memberships: 550
• New Memberships in March: 58
• Renewals in March: 3
• Lost memberships in March (did not renew): 14
• March Income from Individual Memberships: $3050
• Portion allocated to local chapters: $1140

ORGANIZATIONS

• Total Number of Organization Memberships: 32
• New Memberships in March: 0
• Renewals in March: 3(Symantec, Breach, Cigital)
• Lost memberships in March (did not renew): 0
• March Income from Corporate Memberships: $15,000
• Portion allocated to local chapters: $6,000

FUNDS

• March Profit from Individual Memberships: $1910
• March Profit from Corporate Memberships: $9,000
• Total Profit for March: $10,910

Conferences Update

EU09
DC09
Ireland09

Board Procedures

 - APPROVED: Board will capture actions and approvals and communicate them to each committee

Committee Updates

• Global Membership Committee Update - Brennan

 - Action: reduce cost of shipping membership kit and propose solution

• Global Industry Committee Update - Brennan

• Global Conferences Committee Update - Kate

 - Action: Put a 

• Global Projects Committee Update - Dinis

 - New assessment criteria and project governance documents in progress
 - APPROVED: projects that don't respond to project questionnaire will be marked as inactive
 - Kirsten has assembled a list of which alpha projects have not changed since 12/2007
 - Action: consider establishing a team to do reviews/quality work (need to make it attractive somehow)
 - APPROVED: every project needs to have standard "Project Summary Table" (on main page or in a tab) that is maintained by the project committee
 - APPROVED: establish the "Grant Summary Table" (below PST) for all grants of money to projects
 - Action (to Larry): Can the PST and GST be stored somewhere else and be included automatically?

• Global Chapter Committee Update - Seba

 - Nice work on procedures captured in Chapter Leader Handbook

• Global Education Committee Update - Seba

 - Broad goals look very good
 - Action: establish specific project timeline and deliverables

OWASP Technology Infrastructure

• Wiki

 - One version behind (upgrade requires porting extensions)
 - Enabled "tab" feature to help stop scrolling
 - Performance enhancements
 - Added support for integrating feeds into wiki pages
 - Moved to new server hardware (old one has hardware problems)

• Mailing Lists

 - Action: evaluate Google Groups as part of forum