September 25, 2015

Dial In Info

Notice of Recording

• Notice to all attendees - board meetings are recorded and publicly available as of March, 2013
• Joining the call acknowledges your awareness of recording and consent to be recorded and public dissemination of the recording.
• [link:addme Meeting Recording]

Time

Sept. 25 OWASP Board meeting, Start-time is 18:00 Pacific Time.

Location

Sept. 25 OWASP Board meeting is face-to-face meeting located at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco.

Meeting Room is Room A - Pacific Level.

Teleconference Information:

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/861328838

International Toll Free Calling Information

Attendance Tracker

Board Meeting Attendance Tracker

Meeting Minutes

[link:addme Meeting Minutes]

Reading Material

It is a requirement as a board member to fully read all material prior to the start of the meeting

Meeting Agenda

Call to Order /OWASP Mission

• Administrative (List of attendees and Agenda bashing (only if last-minute changes to the agenda are needed) (5 min)

Reports

Vice Chairmain's Report - Josh Sokol

• Working on new policies to encourage spending down of chapter and project funds. Proposal under new business.
• Working on a Bylaw change to address Board member attendance policy. Proposal under new business.

Treasurer Report - Fabio Cerullo

• Paul & Fabio to review Financial report including forecast of Cash flow & cash balance to end of year.
• Discuss High Level summary of Key Funding Categories for 2016 and % Allocation as compared to 2015
  • Example: Funding for Project Summit; AppSec Asia; Training/Training Curriculum program; Developer Outreach; etc.

• Topic 2

Updated from Members at Large - Michael Coates, Andrew van der Stock & Jim Manico

• Update on bylaws - Andrew van der Stock
• Update on Education strategic goal - Andrew van der Stock

Reports

• Executive Director/Operations Update - [link:addme Rollup Report P.Ritchie]
  • Financial Update - August 2015 P&L, Balance Sheet, US/EU, Detail Excel report in Accrual format
  • Community Manager Update - Noreen Whysel Strategic Goals & Metrics for Chapters / Volunteer Program & More
  • Director Update - Kate Hartmann - [link:addme Kate Hartmann Update]
  • Project Manager Update - [link:addme Project Manager Report]
  • Membership Update - Membership Report
  • IT Update: OWASP IT Infrastructure Fall 2015 - Matt Tesauro Report

Old Business

All active board proposals are listed here

• Confirm in Meeting minutes that all current board members, as well as Executive Director & Compliance Officer have completed 'Harassment Training for Supervisors' provided by Insperity, the OWASP HR/Payroll processing company. Paul R. has confirmed.

New Business

All active board proposals are listed here

• [Josh Sokol] - Policy to Encourage Spending of Chapter Funds [1]
• [Josh Sokol] - Board Member Attendance Policy [2]
• [Jim Manico] - Speaker policy stress. Need to review some situations that caused great chapter stresses.
  • What about presentations that are vendor neutral but have the company name in the footer?
  • What about presentations that are open source content using vendor slides?
  • How much do we want to enforce this policy at the chapter level? At the regional conference level? At the national conference level?
  • What about folks giving talks that use non-security vendor presentation templates?
• [Martin Knobloch] - Compliance Officer update
  • current complaints update, (board only)
  • overview current complaints
  • open issues past complaints
  • Compliance Officer for 2016
• [Josh Sokol] - Abusive activities on OWASP mailing lists (PRIVATE SESSION)

Adjournment

• Next meeting date/time: