OWASP Strategic Goals

=2014=

2014 OWASP Foundation Strategic Goals


 * Define an engagement program that facilitates volunteer involvement by enabling volunteers to self-identify and create a plan to incentivize and measure their volunteerism.


 * Mobilize OWASP volunteers to help address security issues in large software systems/applications/frameworks.
 * Metric: Build an OWASP program that incentivizes the security community to find and fix security problems in software.
 * Metric: By the end of the year we have at least two successful completed initiatives reviewing security issues in one or two of the major frameworks


 * Strengthen OWASP chapters and increase Chapter’s abilities to spread message of OWASP through locally organized and run events.
 * Metric: Chapter participation in at least 60 local events (events hosted by chapter or chapter participation in a non-OWASP outreach/appsec event) by the end of the year.
 * Metric: Hold at least 4 (quarterly) virtual chapter leader meetings in addition to in person chapter meetings (at global appsec conferences) to incentivize more collaboration and support between chapter leaders
 * Metric: All chapters with funds in excess of $5000 and 10% of chapters with less than $5000 in funds engaged in annual budgeting.
 * Metric: Annual survey of all chapter leaders asking for their alignment to our mission and strategic goals.


 * Build a scalable OWASP training program that spreads security training around the world
 * Metric: At least 6 total training events with at least 3 being free to attend by the end of the year (in addition to global appsec conferences) - live or online.
 * Metric: OWASP delivered training to 800 additional people (i.e. in addition to the number attending our AppSec training programs last year).

=2013= 2013 OWASP Foundation Strategic Goals


 * Volunteer Engagement - Define an engagement program that creates easy channel for volunteer involvement, expectation setting and recognition of individual efforts.
 * Expand Communication Channels - Establish effective communication channels into developer groups, universities, and industry groups
 * Financial Growth - Build plan for financial growth of foundation and create new sources of income for the organisation to achieve the goals of 2013 and future years.
 * Focus on OWASP Project Quality - Define processes, community involvement and structure to raise quality of key projects and easily identify experimental versus flagship projects.

=2012= 2012 OWASP Foundation Strategic Goals


 * Build the OWASP Platform - Define the processes, resources, and tools to enable volunteers to quickly join and contribute to OWASP in the areas of projects, chapters, education, conferences and connections
 * Expand Communication Channels - Establish effective communication channels into developer groups, universities, and industry groups
 * Grow the OWASP Community - Build and grow the OWASP community throughout the world by focusing on the quality of projects, chapters, conferences, and social technologies
 * Financial Stability - Further build out a stable financial foundation and create new sources of income for the organisation to achieve the goals of 2012 and future years.