June 6, 2011/Project Manager's Report

UNDER WORK - WORK IN PROGRESS

OWASP Project Manager Report

Work accomplished/roundly 6 months of activity

• My daily routine always includes answering a relatively wide range of questions regularly posed by OWASP members and mainly by OWASP Projects leaders. The variety of matters that I currently deal with can be checked in my email tool and the tree of folders built to store, follow up and organize them as follows 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. I would like to note that, to perform this task, and all the others projects related, I have always had relevant support and guidance from the OWASP Global Projects Committee.
• As Project Manager, a substantial part of my work is OWASP Project's related. Please check here the work done on Projects.
• I've built the OWASP Projects Dashboard 2.0 and kept up-to-date all its databases as follows:
  • OWASP Reviews Dashboard,
  • OWASP Project Reviewers Database,
  • Projects 2.0/By Set Up Date Order,
  • Projects 2.0/By Alphabetic Order,
  • OWASP Training.

• Together with Konstantinos Papapanagiotou, I've set the OWASP projects and resources you can use TODAY/Greece Chapter Training Course.
• I've contributed to the Summit 2011 setting up. All the organization process was mainly a team work but my contribution can be divided in 4 distinct parts. The first, concerns the initial task of choosing venue and partners and obtaining a initial cost estimation. The second, regards the final push up to make sure all the Summit participants have their task of setting up partial working sessions timely concluded. The third, has involved designing a flexible schedule concept to deal with both a very large amount of contents to be treated and the need of deciding on a daily basis what would be scheduled. This part of my participation also includes the integration of the team that kept the scheduled updated throughout all the event. The fourth, concerns the work previously done to assure that the presence in the event of a Portuguese Government representative and that the right conditions to produce a protocol for mutual engagement in education activities were created.
• UMIC
• Sandra Paiva has been contracted, in October 2010 (3 months length contract) to the position of OWASP Training Manager, to be responsible for managing the OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ Training activities and operationalising the concept of 'OWASP Academies'. Throughout this process, she was managed by Dinis Cruz and report directly to the OWASP Board. I have worked daily and directly with her providing training and guidance on all aspects related with OWASP organization and culture and trained her on the wiki usage.

Proposal of future activity

• To continue answering all received projects related questions.
• To continue setting up new projects and new releases as requested.
• To continue spreading the GPC templates through all OWASP projects.
• To implement all GPC requests and concretely to support its plans to:
  • To carry out the Project Hosting initiative as a tool to provide a centralized repository for OWASP
  • To build a new OWASP Projects Portal.
  • To design the second leg of the assessment criteria 2.0, i.e., its Project Health component.
• To support the OWASP free training component of the OWASP LatAm Tour, if the activity is ultimately approved.
• To set up all the OWASP free training courses that may be requested by OWASP Chapters.