Global Chapter Committee

Mission Statement

To provide the support required be local chapters to thrive and contribute to the overall mission and goals of OWASP.

2010 Goals

• Provide chapters with useful resources to help them succeed.
• Help individuals in getting more from OWASP chapters.
• Ensure as many chapters as possible are healthy and active.

Tasks

Everyone is busy. To make it possible for busy people to contribute, the global chapters committee subdivides its goals into micro tasks easily digestible in an hour or two by busy volunteers.

Group	Task	Owner
	Recruit an additional member to the committee
Chapters portal	Sort out the chapter list into geographical areas
	Locate and list presentations for chapter meetings
	Locate and list other resources for chapters
	Revamp the chapters home page	Ofer Shezaf
Chapters Handbook	Fill in the managing money section	Sebastien Deleersnyder
	Fill in in the meetings section	Mandeep Khera
	Fill in the marketing and growing a chapter section	Mandeep Khera
Chapters survey	Create a database of North American chapters including leaders, last meeting date and number of meetings in 2009. Start with an Excel list and then progress to sales force.
	Same for Europe
	Same for Asia
	Same for ROW	Ofer Shezaf

Meetings

The global chapters meetings meets using Skype each last Tuesday of the month at 4 p.m. GMT. Corresponding local times are (winter non daylight saving time):

• 12:00 p.m. EST
• 5:00 p.m. CET
• 6:00 p.m. Israel
• 9:30 p.m. India

The meeting is not a goal by itself but is the due date for delivery of last month tasks. The chair will send an invite to the meeting prior to the meeting. If you want to join the meeting please contact the Ofer Shezaf

All meeting agenda's and notes are on the GCC Meetings page

Committee Members

• Chapter Committee Board Member Rep: Tom Brennan
• Committee Chair: *Ofer Shezaf
• Puneet Mehta
• Matthew Chalmers
• Kate Hartmann
• Mandeep Khera
• Sebastien Deleersnyder (Belgium)

We are actively seeking additional committee members. Contact Ofer Shezaf if you want to join and contribute to one of OWASP most important activities.