OWASP Newsletter 14

OWASP Newsletter #14 (xx-Feb-2008)

Welcome to the 14th edition of the OWASP Newsletter, featuring TBD and the TBD Project.

As always, if you have any content to add to the next edition, please feel free to add it directly to its WIKI page OWASP Newsletter 15.

Alison McNamee - OWASP Operations Director - [email protected]

Paulo Coimbra (following is recent sucess of managing Spoc 07) as accepted to become the 2nd OWASP employee (he will be working part-time until June and full time from then on). Paulo will take on the role of OWASP Project Management, and here are his first short-term action plan:

To launch and manage the new season of code – OWASP Summer of Code 2008.
To contribute to and stabilize OWASP’s new Project Assessment Criteria.
To contribute to the assessment, and re-assessment, of all OWASP projects.
To build and maintain a wiki page with the status of all OWASP projects and their assessments.
To welcome new developers who are interested in joining OWASP community.
To help project leaders and participants with their projects in any way that I can.

OWASP has begun the process of stabilization its PROJECT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA. The objective is to have clear and objective requirements for OWASP project's deliverables (for both tools and documentation).
- The current structure is still in flux, so please spend some time reviewing it and send us your comments.
- The objective is to map all OWASP Projects to the proposed 3 project modes (Release Quality, Beta Quality and Alpha Quality) in the next couple months.

OWASP is about to launch the 'OWASP SUMMER OF CODE 2008' (SoC 2008). This follows the successfull OWASP Spring of Code 2007 (SpoC 07), in which 21 projects were sponsored with a budget of US$117,500, and the OWASP Autumn of Code 2006 (AoC 06), in which 9 projects were sponsored with a budget of US$20,000.
The SoC 2008 is an open sponsorship program were participants/developers are paid to work on OWASP (and web security) related projects.
The SoC 2008 is also an opportunity for external individual or company sponsors to challenge the participants/developers to work in areas in which they are willing to invest additional funding.
For more details see:
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 - Main page of SoC 08
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 Press Release - Press release.
- OWASP Summer of Code 2008 Applications - To submit applications.
- OWASP Summer 0f Code 2008 : Selection - Jury's evaluation of applications.
- Who Can Apply?
- How To Participate (To Developers)
- Schedule
- Jury and Selection Criteria
- Operational Rules
- General Rules
- SoC 2008 Budget

For a complete list of chapter presentations see the online table of presentations.

Feb 25 - Introducing the Adobe AIR security model (by Lucas Adamski) - Learn more about the rationale behind the AIR security model and what you should consider when building AIR applications.

Feb 28 - OWASP Hartford tomorrow (by Marcin) - Tomorrow, February 28th, is the first ever meeting for the brand new Hartford Owasp chapter. James McGovern, the chapter lead has been putting some effort into starting it off with a bang, so I hope everyone in the NY/CT/Mass area can make it. Agenda ...