February 6, 2012 SB Report

Sarah Baso - Activity for January 2012 (Prepared for Feb 6, 2012 Board Meeting)

Chapters Committee
General Committee Info
 * Committee Membership: 3 resignations: Puneet Mehta, Andrew van der Stock, Mandeep Khera
 * Committee Chair: New chair is Josh Sokol
 * January Committee Meeting Minutes: 16 & 17 January 2012
 * 2012 Chapters Committee Budget - $24,594.10 of $25,000 remaining ($405.90 spent).

Major Activities/Projects (in addition to attending monthly committee meetings, taking & posting meeting minutes):
 * Updated wiki pages with completed Chinese Translation of Chapter Handbook (translation coordinated by Ivy Zhang) - wiki pages mirror the layout of the Chapter handbook in English with "/cn" added to the end of the page: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:Chapter_Handbook/cn
 * Created Gotomeeting instruction wiki page for chapter leaders: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Chapter_Leader_Handbook/GoToMeeting
 * Updated, alphabetized, and formatted (new image on chapter page as well: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Owasp_around_the_world
 * Worked with chapters committee to draft email & google form to be sent to all chapter leaders to track reading and agreeing to terms of new chapter handbook. Email sent on 15-Jan-2012 to individuals (all leader emails posted to the chapter wiki pages), then leaders and owasp-chapters list to cover those who may not have been posted to their chapter pages. Follow-up reminder sent 26-Jan-2012. Will continue to send follow up emails to complete initiative by 28-Feb-2012.
 * As of 6-Feb-2012, response received from 50% of Chapter Leaders.
 * 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.

New Chapters and Chapter restarts in January:
 * Santa Barbara - David Shaw & Jimmy Mesta
 * Detroit - Josh Little and J. Wolfgang Goerlich
 * Bogota - Columbia - Yuly Paola Larrota Castro and German Alonso Suárez Guerrero
 * Royal Holloway - University of London - Dennis Groves and Dinis Cruz
 * Pune - Yogesh Kulkarni
 * Quebec City - Patrick Leclerc, Anne-Marie Faber, Yannick Bernoron

Conferences Committee
General Committee Info
 * Committee Membership: No Change.
 * Committee Chair: Mark Bristow will stay in position for 2012.
 * January Committee Meeting Minutes: 16 January 2012
 * Global Conferences Committee Budget - $39,475.00 of $40,000 remaining ($525.00 spent).

Major Activities/Projects (in addition to attending monthly committee meetings, taking & posting meeting minutes):
 * 2013 Summit Planning - 2 meetings in January (16-Jan and 30-Jan), drafted and sent out RFP, created: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Summit_2013
 * Drafted CFP/CFT for AppSec APAC and google forms (CFT)(http://sl.owasp.org/apac2012talks CFP]) to collect responses. More info posted to conference page: http://www.appsecapac.org
 * Created sponsorship doc for AppSec APAC
 * Wiki updates AppSec APAC
 * Editing/reviewing venue contract for AppSec APAC
 * Collecting/reviewing AppSec event budgets
 * Regonline set up for Australia & basic template for Greece, Appsec Ireland
 * Created Sponsorship agreement template for OWASP US (based on Seba’s for EU)
 * Created documents 2012 Global Sponsorship packages (including statistics from last years Global AppSec Events) & financial breakdown - value of packages
 * Created OWASP info pack to accompany sponsorship docs and send to media with Q’s about org.
 * 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.

Other

 * Worked with Dinis Cruz to create scripts to generate statistics on OWASP Mailing List subscribers. Statistics gathered on 6-Feb-2012 are posted here: http://owasp.blogspot.com/2012/02/owasp-mailing-lists-subscriber-count.html
 * Conference calls for staff meetings, status updates, international event planners.