GlobalMembershipCommittee Notes 20100419

Attendees
- PRESENT - Michael Coates

Dan Cornell

Sebastien Deleersnyder

- NOT PRESENT -

Stephen Craig Evans

Kate Hartmann

Membership Status
March 2010 Numbers

Total Number of Individual Memberships: 927

New Memberships in March: 67

Renewals in March: 13

Lost memberships in March (did not renew): 54

March Income from Individual Memberships: $4000

Portion allocated to local chapters: $1340

March Profit from Individual Memberships: $2660

Total Number of Organization Memberships: 32

New Memberships in March: 0

Renewals in March: 4 (BAH, Cigital, Symantec, Fishnet)

Lost memberships in March (did not renew): 1 (Breach)

March Income from Corporate Memberships: $20,000

Portion allocated to local chapters: $2,000

March Profit from Corporate Memberships: $18,000

Agenda

 * Review membership numbers
 * Discuss membership kits see April Board Minutes
 * Corporate Membership Kit
 * Tangible benefit/reminder of OWASP
 * Quarterly OWASP Book
 * Printed Newsletter
 * OWASP T-Shirt
 * Corporate "gold" bundle membership
 * Discussed during OWASP DC
 * OWASP Presence at Security Conferences
 * Are we visible? (blackhat, secwest, hack in the box, Shmoocon, etc)
 * More outreach to chapter leadership, project leadership
 * New membership drive

Minutes

 * Membership Status
 * Yay, almost 1000 members
 * New membership drive push


 * Membership Kits
 * Agreed that membership kits would be modified as follows to minimize cost
 * Memberhip kit will only contain an OWASP T-Shirt
 * An electronic copy of the membership card and certificate will be e-mail'ed to the member
 * For memberships created as a result of conference registration the user will receive their t-shirt at the conference. This will minimize the shipping costs for our international members.
 * The other items of the membership kit will be eliminated (printed badge, badge holder, sticker)
 * Savings: $4.34 per kit --> 22% savings for domestic membership kits and 16% savings for international kits
 * Additional Savings: Possibly reduces Kate's time and significantly reduces international shipping costs (for conference originated membership)


 * Creation of Organizational Supporter Kits
 * Purpose: To provide regular information to organizational supporters regarding OWASP
 * Each organizational supporter will receive an OWASP kit each quarter
 * Contents
 * 2 copies of an OWASP book printed from lulu (OWASP Top 10 is first book)
 * 1 glossy printout of most recent OWASP newsletter
 * ACTION ITEM: KATE - We need to determine an estimated cost for this and check we have mailing addresses for all organizational members


 * Organizational Supporter Contact
 * Purpose: To establish regular communication between OWASP and organizational supporters
 * All of the organizational supporters will be logically divided by region or established contacts between the OWASP membership committee and OWASP board members (as needed).
 * Each quarter the OWASP contact point will call and speak with the organizational supporter contact point
 * Goal:
 * Establish and build relationship with OWASP
 * Ensure supporter is aware of local chapter events
 * Discuss how OWASP and supporter can further work together
 * ACTION ITEM: MICHAEL - Build list and perform first pass of division


 * Organizational GOLD Supporter / Bundle
 * Discussing idea of creating a bundled supporter package.
 * Goal is to allow an org to use a single PO for the entire year for multiple OWASP "purchases"
 * Ideas for bundle include:
 * Organizational Supporter
 * Conference Attendance
 * Banner Ads
 * Conference Sponsorships
 * Local Chapter donations
 * Need to determine what % discount
 * Need to create sample bundles and possibly offer ala carte style bundling


 * OWASP Presence at Conferences
 * Is OWASP visible at big security conferences? (BlacHat, HitB, CanSecWest, etc)
 * What about developer conferences?
 * Seba proposed OWASP contact conference organizers to establish official relationship. This is something connections committee is likely handling.
 * ACTION ITEM: SEBA - Follow up with connection committee to see if they are doing this