Global Education Committee

= About the Global Education Committee = '''The Global Education Committee was created during the OWASP EU Summit in Portugal 2008. The primary purpose of the Global Education Committee is: to work with the OWASP Education Project to provide educational materials for both internal and external users, develop liaisons with educational institutions worldwide.'''

Mission
Provide awareness, training and educational services to corporate, government and educational institutions on application security.

Vision
Make OWASP educational material globally available as a well known resource in easily consumable form mapped to a framework tied specifically to user roles and responsibilities

Committee Members
Education Committee (Board Member Rep: [mailto:seba@owasp.org Seba])

•	[mailto:martin.knobloch@owasp.org Martin Knobloch] (Netherlands)

•	[mailto:mano.paul@securisksolutions.com Mano Paul] (U.S.)

•	[mailto:eduardo.neves@owasp.org Eduardo Neves] (Brazil)

•	[mailto:kuai.hinojosa@owasp.org Kuai Hinjosa] (U.S.)

•	[mailto:cecil.su@GRANTTHORNTON.COM.SG Cecil Su] (Singapore)

•	[mailto:fabio.e.cerullo@aib.ie Fabio Cerullo] (Ireland)

•	[mailto:andrzej.targosz@proidea.org.pl Andrzej Targosz] (Poland)

How to join this committee

Join our mailing list

Scheduled Meetings
The Global Education Committee Meetings take place via Skype, see below for the local time: 3:30 p.m. @ Austin, Texas 4:30 p.m. @ New York 7:30 p.m. @ Brasil 22:30 a.m. @ Netherlands 5:30 a.m. @ Singapore (following day) Next meeting(s) scheduled for:
 * February 29th 2009

= Agenda / Timeline (DRAFT) =

Tasks
 60 days to make a proposal 
 *  December 20th  - first draft of the proposal
 *  January 16th  - submit

Targets (DRAFT)
Below you can find the timeline, what has to be achieved by when. All tasks must be SMART!

= Proposal (DRAFT) =

Categorize (Organization) of educational materials
Categorize / Organization of the educational materials for audiance by roles and responsibilities/technologies and use the summit workshop notes.

Train the trainers (Teach the teachers)
Objective: Develop a train the trainer program that will train trainers to deliver training on OWASP related material.

Activities/Deadline:
 * 1) Develop a criteria to identify and approve trainers / Q1 2009
 * 2) Identify pertinent OWASP related material that will be included in the training kit / Q2 2009. This is dependent on the education project organizing material.
 * 3) Create a training toolkit with pre-built presentation and training materials, assessments etc. / Q3 2009
 * 4) Conduct train the trainer sessions (remote or in-person) / Q4 2009

Benefits: The training kit and trained trainers will be available resources promoting OWASP in local events worldwide.

Create an online assessment and training portal
Objective: Develop an OWASP assessment and training portal that end users can use to gauge their knowledge on OWASP concepts and training providers can use to promote their training offerings.

Activities/Deadline: This can be developed as a summer of code project but is not a requirement.
 * 1) Generate OWASP assessment items (can use the testing guide and other sources) / Q2-Q3 2009
 * 2) Develop an assessment portal to deliver taking of assessments with robust reporting by knowledge area / Q4 2009
 * 3) Develop a training portal to allow training providers to publish and promote their training offerings / Q4 2009

Benefits: Assessments that can be offered in OWASP events and other conferences to users will increase OWASP awareness. The portal can become the link between trainers and trainees and will eventually help in increasing the awareness and knowledge of application security in the industry.

OWASP Boot Camp Project
OWASP Boot Camp about the OWASP projects, to deliver a Boot Camp presentation should be one of the criteria to get an alpha status as project

Speakers Bureau Project
List of speakers, Name, Bio, Topics, History Speakers in conferences (OOTM ask for funds on this)/summit

Education material
yers or Brochures of OWASP Top 10, Testing Guide.

Educational Services
 Contact university - build a university list Incorporate OWASP into the following top 5 Universities, within the next 12 months by introducing OWASP training and education resources at University's events. 1) New York University 2) Cornell University 3) Princeton University 4) University of Minnesota 5) Columbia University

As a result of these initiative we would hope to see:

1) Confirming participation at arranged events 2) Asking Universities to recognize they are using our resources by allowing us to place their names in wiki pages such as http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Top_Ten_Project 3) University faculty, staff and students participate in local and international events/meetings 4) University faculty, staff and students contribute to OWASP projects