OWASP Board Meeting July 7, 2009 Agenda

Membership Update

Total Number of Individual Memberships: 643

New Memberships in June: 39

Renewals in June: 3

Lost memberships in June (did not renew): 15

June Income from Individual Memberships: $2100

Portion allocated to local chapters: $700

June Profit from Individual Memberships: $1400

Total Number of Organization Memberships: 24

New Memberships in June: 3 (Fujitsu, Whitehat, IBI)

Renewals in June: 0

Lost memberships in June (did not renew): 2 (Cenzic, Accuvant)

June Income from Corporate Memberships: $7,500

Portion allocated to local chapters: $2,500

June Profit from Corporate Memberships: $5,000

Total Profit for June: $6,400



2007 Audit Report

INDIVIDUAL COMMITTEE REPORTS
 * Global Membership Committee Update - Brennan

No votes required

2009 Membership Powerpoint


 * Global Industry Committee Update - Brennan

No updates, no board votes required
 * Global Conferences Committee Update - Kate



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Board approval requested for CFC 2010


 * Global Projects Committee Update - Dinis

June PPT


 * Global Chapter Committee Update - Seba




 * Global Education Committee Update - Seba





IT Issues:

1. What to do about wiki/forums/mailing lists?
 * Liferay (java based cms) -- possible hosted env.
 * Drupal
 * Ultimate BBS with mailing list integration

2. Future of IT support

Vote Required:

1. Are we going to have a financial review for 2008. The cost is 5K. Suggestion is to skip the annual review and have full review every 3 years.

2. What to do with invoices over 1 year old. Send to collections? Write off? Current balance is $2900

3. Do we charge Local chapters processing fees for the 60/40 split. Currently we do not. Proposal is to pass along the transaction fees too the chapter for paypal processing.

4. Should we invest $2500 to support an OWASP meet up at Blackhat

Board Votes Postponed from June

1. Delegate 90K for SOC. Funds to cover project team costs.'''

OUTCOME:

Board postpones vote until updated information on the budget (month reconciliations up to date).

2. Board approval needed for updated SoC model.'''

OUTCOME:

Board will postpone vote pending feedback from the leaders' list.