Revision as of 14:59, 27 May 2014

Join the Meeting - Connection Information

• Tuesday May 27, 2014

Watch the live or recorded meeting

• Video link
• Youtube Link
• Last meeting's agenda
• Community Update Overall Page

OWASP'er Mentions

• New leadership at OWASP Ireland Chapter
  • Fiona Collins is passing the leadership torch to Owen Pendlebury (chapter lead role)
• New board member at OWASP Ireland Chapter
  • Darren Fitzpatrick has stepped down from the board. Mark Denihan will join as a board member.

Thanks to everyone for their past and future efforts on the chapters & projects

• Very active OWASP'ers on the wiki (Top 10 most active - non-admins, alphabetical)
  • User:Adrian_Goodhead
  • User:Caio_Dias
  • User:Carlos_Allendes
  • User:Clerkendweller
  • User:Jane_O'Connor
  • User:Johanna_Curiel
  • User:Jullie_Rose_Hiteroza
  • User:Kait_Disney-Leugers
  • User:Luisenriquez
  • User:T.Gigler

• Thanks to the hard work of OWASP Algeria chapter leader "Mennouchi Islam Azeddine", OWASP has contributed to the success of the event "Call For Tech" (http://callfortech.net/) that took place at the University of the city of Constantine(Algeria) from the 4th to 11th of May 2014.

Upcoming Events

• 2014 OWASP Elections! - Submit your candidacy
• OWASP Calendar

Upcoming Chapter Events

• May 27 - Peru: OWASP Perú Chapter Meeting
• June 11 - USA: Rhode Island non-attributable honeypot system via fly by night VPS providers
• June 12 - USA: Omaha PCI 3.0, DSS Req 6, Secure Coding
• June 13 - Spain Chapter Meeting (Agenda link)
• June 16 - Israel Chapter Meeting

Full list of worldwide chapters, OWASP Events Calendar

Chapter Info

• Running a chapter and want your event featured in Community Update and on OWASP home page? Just add it to the OWASP events calendar
  • Instructions for chapter leaders on how to add events
• Chapter Funds - Did you know you chapter has funds to use?
  • Tips on spending chapter funds
• Need funding for an OWASP activity? Check out the funding page

Conferences

• OWASP Latam Tour - April 21, 2014 - May 9, 2014
  • Starting in Chile, then Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Guatemala, Columbia, Argentina
• OWASP AppSec EU - 2014 June 23, 2014 - June 26, 2014
  • Cambridge, UK
• OWASP AppSec USA - 2014 Sept. 16, 2014 - Sept. 19, 2014
  • Denver, Colorado

Full conference calendar

Notable Project Activity

New Activity

• OWASP_AppSensor_Project Book v2 Released!
  • PDF free for download File:Owasp-appsensor-guide-v2.pdf
  • On demand printing available at Lulu $8.50
  • Thanks to authors: Colin Watson, Dennis Groves, John Melton
  • Thanks to contributors: Josh Amishav-Zlatin, Ryan Barnett, Michael Coates, Craig Munson, Jay Reynolds
• COMMENTS REQUESTED: New Project Framework
  • Goals are to clearly define project framework for contributors and community while promoting both innovation and quality.
  • Frameworks to include definitions, how projects will be reviewed, and how they will be supported by the foundation.
• How to Fund a project - preview on additional information about funding a project - documentation coming soon
• ZAP 2.3.1 Released. This is a bugfix release - for more details see the release notes
• OWASP Node Goat Project - First stable release on May 6! - See https://github.com/OWASP/NodeGoat/releases
  • Thanks to Chetan Karande for his efforts on this project
• OWASP Python Security Project (http://www.pythonsecurity.org/) has decided to support the "Proposal Project Review QA Approach" (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Proposal_Project_Review_QA_Approach) by creating a tool to satisfy the proposal's requirements.

Exciting Projects to Checkout

Activities Looking for Volunteers

OWASP Wiki

Pages that Need Attention

• OWASP RegEx - Needs some regular expression expertise. Focus on ensuring updated with applicable regex dos concerns

Editing Tips & Tricks

• Basic FAQ for editing the wiki

Wiki Clean Up Crew

• Help Needed - Join mailing list to discuss
• https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Wiki_Cleanup

Wiki-Fu

• Wiki editing tip of the week - Creating Internal Wiki Links
  • When creating internal wiki links use the format [[page | text to display ]] instead of [https://www.owasp.org text to display]
  • Example - Create a link to the membership page https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Membership
  • Correct - Become a member <-- [[Membership | Become a member]]
  • Incorrect - Become a member <-- [https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Membership Become a member]
  • More info on internal links

• See recent changes made anywhere on the wiki here - recent changes
• See special pages for more advanced queries of the wiki
• Wiki has an api - owasp api

Announcements from the Foundation

Q&A

There are multiple ways to submit questions for the meeting. One option is to include your question here:

• Question - Your name