OWASP Global Projects Report

Projects Under Review
- OWASP Cheat Sheets Project
- OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer Project
- Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework
- OWASP Cornucopia Project
- Project reviews are on hold until we can fill the Technical Project Advisor volunteer roles.

Currently Working On

Technical Project Advisory Roles
- The interviews for the six advisory roles are complete.
- I have finished choosing each advisor for each role.
- I have let each successful candidate know of their role allocation.
- Each successful candidate has now confirmed acceptance of their role allocation
- I have reached out to them with more information about our review process and OWASP Projects in general.
- I have also asked them to create wiki accounts, and I have asked them to let me know when they are available for our initial meeting.
- I am currently putting together a story that will announce this initiative on our blog.

Determining Active Project Status
- This is a status update on this initiative.
- I am reaching out to each leader individually to confirm these pieces of data for all 164 projects.
- Flagship projects are completed.
- Labs are completed.
- I am currently working on finalizing the Incubator projects.

Event Manager Interviews
- This process is still ongoing.
- The OWASP Team is currently reviewing resumés, and interviewing candidates for the Event Manager role.
- We are working together to tackle the 80+ applications we received for this position.
- The team has a few more interviews to manage before we make our final selection next week.
- We plan to have a new candidate in this role by mid July.

Women in Security: AppSec USA 2013
- The team is now in the fundraising stage.
- We have managed to raise $500.00 from the OWASP Boston Chapter.
- We have also raised more funds thanks to the OWASP Long Island Chapter.
- Women in Security Sponsorship Document: AppSec USA 2013
- We have reached out to several organizations and OWASP Chapters to seek sponsorship for this program.
- You can find more information on the AppSec USA website.
- The total amount we are requesting is $6,000.00 to cover conference fee, training fee, travel and accommodation for both winners.
- We continue to work hard with our fundraising efforts to bringing this initiative to AppSec USA 2013.

Marketing Phase 3 Update
- Not too much change here this week.
- Sisterworks Publishing has finalized their copywriting work, and they have sent their materials to the graphic design studio.
- Design Foundry has now started designing their first drafts of our remaining marketing collateral.
- The OWASP Team is currently working on a system that will allow community review of the design work.
- We will ask for community feedback once we get a more finalized version of each design.
- Phase 1 Deliverable
- Phase 2 Deliverable
- SEO Content Audit
  - Note: Phase 2 Deliverable has recommendations made by Sisterworks and Design Foundry based on their research.
  - We are not necessarily moving forward with these recommendations towards implementation.
  - Sisterworks and Design Foundry are helping with our brand consistency and collateral design.

Personal Development
- I am still taking my online course from Coursera.
- The course topic is Information Security and Risk Management in Context.

Daily Project based queries and requests
- This has not changed much since I began the post: questions are very similar in nature.
- Global AppSec questions.
- Funding queries.
- Travel availability.
- Project based administrative help.
- Project status information.
- Several project donations questions.
- Marketing questions.
- Grant funding questions.
- OWASP Social Media Updates.
- What's happening with projects, questions.

Amount: $120,000 USD in Adwords Funds
Status: Awarded.
Note: There is no link to show the proposal for this grant. There was a form that was submitted to Google, and we did not receive a record of this form.