July 11, 2011

Roll call
Board of Directors (Jeff, Tom, Dave, Seba, Matt, Eoin)

To track and record mins., of this meeting via your @OWASP account

Finance Report
Report Submitted by: Alison





Status 2010 3rd Party Audit Report - Follow up completed, final report pending

Status 2010 Tax Filing - TBD

= Committee reports (regular and special) =

Global Membership Update

 * Membership Model 3.0 pushed live
 * Need to discuss treatment of Honorary Memberships and the upcoming election (per vote requested by Seba) - See List
 * Other election notes

Global Industry Update

 * 2011 Meeting Attendance Records
 * Industry Committee Budget -- $39,259.24 of $49,000 remaining ($9740.76 spent)

Global Projects Update

 * GPC Update Presentation (contains accomplishments, initiatives awaiting Board action, budget update, and future plans)
 * Working Session Proceedings (48 pages) available
 * Includes background on working session planning, budget, agenda, artifacts, lessons learned, future plans
 * Final budget impact: $5,614.09 (original budget: $6,350; 11.5% under budget)
 * Projects Handbook open for community review (email request for comments to go out this week)
 * Waiting for signed SourceForge contract from Board
 * Current list of all project leaders

Global Chapters Update

 * 2011 Meeting Attendance Records
 * Global Chapters Committee Budget -- $46,282.71 of $50,000 remaining ($3717.29 spent)

Global Conferences Update
GCC Update Presentation


 * 2011 Meeting Attendance Records
 * Global Conferences Committee Budget -- $25,965.43 of $38,000 remaining ($12,034.57 spent)

BOARD VOTE REQUESTED
Conferences/Chapters Responsibility Split
 * New Policy for Local/Regional events as agreed upon by both the Conferences and Chapters Committees
 * 8-July-2011 Email to Board requesting Vote and including arguments from each side
 * WHAT IS BEING REQUESTED OF THE BOARD:
 * If you are in favor of using a required fee as a criteria for committee responsibility determination vote YEA
 * If you do not believe that requiring a fee as a criteria for committee responsibility determination is appropriate vote NO

Special

 * Sarah Baso - Report of Activities for May and June 2011


 * Website budget allocation - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/RFO_Web_Design

= Old/unfinished business =

Vote to adopt Jeff Williams - June 3rd Proposed OWASP Platform model

OWASP LatAm Tour 22 registrations for Argentina

Global Committee Consolidation - Observations and Recommendations submitted 10-Jun via email.

Proposal made to consolidate Global Committees to 3: Conferences, Chapters, and Projects

Education, Industry, Connections, and Membership committees would be restructured into task forces which emerge from ecosystems as focused working groups with a budget and a charter to meet a predefined goal.

New business
Seba:


 * New contract Sarah, (re)negotiation Paulo, status Larry


 * Voting Rights for Chapter/Project Leader:

Dave - Yes; Eoin - open vote to all; Jeff - yes, and make them honorary members; Tom - Yes; Matt - yes; Seba - yes

So, board vote to allow chapter/project leaders to vote is affirmative.

Continued vote - do we reinstate the "honorary memberships" as well

Kate


 * Konik (vendor) will warehouse and ship (provide fulfillment services) approved merchandise at no additional cost (other than shipping) to addresses for approved events. This will eliminate the need for storage and will provided better accounting and tracking.

OWASP Contact Us Status Report

Martin: - What can we offer in means in agreement - Sponsorship for free services to OWASP?
 * 3rd party envolvement, how to tread free service offers as
 * Innovation Security's OWASP TeamMentor
 * Hacking-Labs
 * OWASP European Store, shipping small amounts to European chapters is inefficient.
 * I have offered to make space available for OWASP goodies to be stored so they can be shipped around cheaper
 * aprovement for shipping and shipping through required / needed?
 * Kate as Single Point of Contact, can forward requests to me to send through from NL