April 5, 2012 SB Report

Sarah Baso - Activity for March 2012 (Prepared for April 5, 2012 Board Meeting)

Chapters Committee
General Committee Info
 * Committee Membership: No changes, currently 5 members: Seba Deleersnyder, Tin Zaw, Josh Sokol, Ivy Zhang, and Gustavo Barbato
 * Committee Chair: Josh Sokol
 * March Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 & 20 March 2012
 * 2012 Chapters Committee Budget - $17,257.80 of $25,000 remaining ($7,742.29 spent).

Major Activities/Projects (in addition to attending monthly committee meetings, taking & posting meeting minutes):
 * Ongoing - Work with Kate Hartmann to ensure that chapter-related requests through Contact Us Form are addressed in a timely fashion.
 * Ongoing - Setting up new chapters -- @owasp.org email accounts, wiki page, mailing list, add to leader mailing list, and ensure chapter appears on regonline chapter list.
 * Ongoing - Respond to various chapter leader questions/requests via email
 * Ongoing - Manage OWASP merchandise requests via google doc, including business cards.
 * Coordinating Chapters Workshops at 4 Global AppSec Events and possibly AppSec India. Workshop in Sydney - expecting between 15 & 20 people
 * Completed collection of Chapter Handbook acknowledgements and inventory of all active chapters & chapter leaders (Q1 goal)
 * Responses to Chapter Handbook Acknowledgement form: 334 leaders, 180 Chapters
 * Active Chapters: 180
 * Active Chapter Leaders/Board Members: 388
 * Estimated Chapters determined as inactive as result of inventory: 15



New Chapters and Chapter restarts in March: 6
 * Baltimore - Michael Hixon
 * Bucaramanga, Colombia - Diego Ademir
 * Maceio, Brazil - Thalysson Sarmento
 * Ghana - THodore Sagoe
 * Johns Hopkins University - Catsal Bakshi
 * Oman - Muhammad Haroon

Conferences Committee
General Committee Info
 * Committee Membership: New member - Lorna Alamri, currently 7 members: Mark Bristow, Ralph Durkee, Richard Greenberg, Lucas Ferreira, John Wilander, Mohd Fazli Azran, and Lorna Alamri.
 * Committee Chair: Mark Bristow
 * March Committee Meeting Minutes: 2012 14 March
 * Global Conferences Committee Budget - $32,618.82 of $40,000 remaining ($7381.18 spent).

Major Activities/Projects (in addition to attending monthly committee meetings, taking & posting meeting minutes):
 * 2013 Summit Planning - 2 meetings in early March
 * Soliciting and coordinating communication with sponsors for AppSec DC and Appsec APAC
 * Ongoing - Updated and monitored google form for tracking schwag requests and monitor OCMS for events that have requested schwag but not entered request into google form.
 * Ongoing - Work with Konik, Kate, Rocksport, Zazzle, Lulu, and other misc. vendors to fulfull merchandise and conference requests.

Upcoming Events
AppSec DC - Regional
 * Budget
 * Registration #s - 315 people registered for conference (140 Paid, 175 Comps), 62 people registered for paid training
 * Sponsorship income $43,000
 * Sponsors: Aspect Security, Securicon, Mandiant, Trustwave, Codenomicon, WhiteHat, nVisium, Bayshore Networks, Core Security, Secure Ideas
 * Estimated Conference Profit: $15,000 USD

AppSec APAC - Global
 * Budget
 * Registration #s: 48 people registered for conference, 23 people registered for paid training
 * Sponsorship income $34,000; Sponsors: Fortify/HP, AppSecure, Imperva, Trustwave, Content Security, GA Systems, Ionize
 * Sponsor Information Pack
 * Schedule Posted
 * Estimated Conference Loss - $20,000 USD

AppSec Europe Research - Global
 * Budget
 * Sponsors - F5, Cigital, Trustwave(Global), Gotham Digital
 * Updates - CFP and CFT released

AppSec India - Regional
 * event website
 * Budget
 * Sponsors - Torrid
 * Expected attendance - 500+
 * Update - need to review their sponsorship document and find out how they will be handling/processing money for the event

AppSec USA - Global
 * Budget
 * Sponsors - Aspect Security, Trustwave (Global & Lanyard), IBM, NetSpi
 * Update - team is finalizing website, CFP and CFT to be released soon

AppSec Latam - Global
 * Budget
 * Sponsors - Trustwave (Global & Lanyard)
 * Update - Finalizing venue contract and determining best way to handle financing for event.