OWASP Student Chapters Program

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The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has local chapters around the world that help teach, learn, and inspire application security. Our College Chapters program helps to extend application security into colleges and universities worldwide. If your school has a computer science or management information systems degree, we want to start a College Chapter there.

Apply for OWASP College Chapter Leadership
If you're interested in starting a College Chapter at your school, please review the rules for the College Chapter program below and then fill out the short application form. In short, all we expect is that you will find a location, organize monthly meetings, learn a lot about application security, behave ethically, and have fun!

OWASP College Chapter Application Form

OWASP College Chapter Rules

 * 1) Your primary goal is to promote understanding of application security
 * 2) You will have a President, Treasurer, and Secretary
 * 3) You will have meetings at least monthly throughout the school year
 * 4) You will arrange for a place to meet that is conducive to discussion, presentations, etc…
 * 5) You will work with faculty to integrate application security into the CS curriculum
 * 6) You will encourage members to make regular updates to the OWASP wiki, submit projects to OWASP, participate in OWASP conferences, etc…
 * 7) You will NOT engage in any unauthorized security testing or other unethical behavior

Summit 2011 notes
During the Summit 2011, we had a 'dynamic' session about the college chapter programm: http://forum.owasp.org/index.php/Summit_2011_Working_Sessions/Session261

Project leader responsibilities:
 * maintaining list of college chapters
 * being the link (whenever requested) to the OWASP community
 * find OWASP members to be advisor for students during their research

College Chapter responsibilities:
 * annually appoint college chapter leaders to guarantee continiuty
 * follow the Chapter Handbook
 * promote the college chapter inside and outside the university
 * seakout for a faculty advisor
 * get involved in the local chapter (if available)

Actions:
 * Global Membership Committee,
 * create student membership for free
 * including student-specific welcome package
 * Create promotion material for the college chapter
 * reach out to PR students for PR material
 * create College Chaper competition (ask John Wilander for ideas)
 * research, development, everything
 * Local Chapters, support the local college chapter
 * speakers
 * chapter meeting invitation
 * Rename to student chapter
 * enable seperate mailinglists per college chapter

... to  promote security education at universities
 * requesting quotes from goverment, industry and
 * Industry / connection committee

February 15th 2011
Project leads are, as volunteered during the Summit, Edward Bonver and Martin Knobloch.

TODO's:
 * Project has to be renamed to "Student Chapter Program", Martin
 * Finding other, existing Student / University initiatives, Edward
 * Contact with the Membership Committee about proposing Free Student Membership, Martin
 * Creation of a student specific welcome package
 * Create College Chaper competition, Edward
 * Contact the registered Student Chapters about project restart, Edward & Martin

March 1st 2011
TODO's update: --> waiting for Paulo --> will be done after finalizing information to send out --> will be purposed at the Global Education Committee meeting --> waiting for reply of the Membership Committee --> task has to be assigned --> contact Fabio (AppSec-EU 2011) and John (AppSec-Eu 2010)
 * Project has to be renamed to "Student Chapter Program", Martin
 * Finding other, existing Student / University initiatives, Edward
 * Contact with the Membership Committee about proposing Free Student Membership, Martin
 * Creation of a student specific welcome package
 * Create College Chaper competition, Edward
 * Contact the registered Student Chapters about project restart, Edward & Martin