OWASP Project Manager Activity Reports/September 10 2012

DHS Funding Proposal

 * We had two DHS Host Project Funding proposal meetings this month. The first meeting was with the OWASP Guide project leads. Andrew van der Stock, Eoin Keary and I addressed queries and concerns that were brought to our attention by Deborah from the Home Office. The second meeting was held between Kate Harmann, Debroah Bryant and I. We discussed her concerns in more detail, and Deborah agreed to get back to us with a more detailed explanation of additional information she requires from us. We are still waiting to hear back from her at this time. Thank you to Kate Hartmann, Andrew van der Stock, Matteo Meucci, and Eoin Keary for all of their hard work on this project. We hope to hear from Deb sometime this week. The proposal is for $25,000 USD.

Projects Set Up

 * OWASP Top 10 Defences
 * XSSER: Waiting to hear back from Project Leader. Will not confirm his identity.

Project Set Up Confirmations

 * OWASP Review BSI IT-Grundschutz Baustein Webanwendungen

Pending Project Applications

 * Forensic Guide: Waiting to hear back from the Project Leader.
 * Xelenium: Waiting to hear back from the Project Leader.
 * Intelligent Security: Waiting to hear back from the Project Leader.

Other Issues

 * Updated Creating Project wiki page, studied Project handbook and Project Assessment Criteria
 * Had a very successful on-boarding process. I was very quickly set up with all the necessary accounts, and went through training with Kate Hartmann on the project management work flow for OWASP project set-ups.
 * Naming issue: If a project applicant refuses to give me his/her real name, should I set up the project any way? Would this violate the OWASP Core Value of Transparency?

Day-to-Day Tasks

 * Answering daily project related queries from OWASP Project Leaders and Members
 * Corresponding with project applicants on the status of their applications
 * Setting up projects that meet the 'Sanity Test' on the Incubator Project Applications document (IPA)
 * Confirming set up and status of projects on IPA document that seem to already be set up
 * Creating mailing lists and roadmap pages for projects that are missing this on their wiki pages
 * I've kept the following OWASP Project databases up-to-date for the past two weeks:
 * Incubator Project Applications.
 * OWASP Project Inventory.

Proposal of future activity

 * Continue answering all project related questions
 * Continue setting up new projects as they come in
 * Continue to implement all GPC requests:
 * Meet with the Committee to discuss project lifecycle, project processes and Project Reboot
 * Build and implement marketing standards and offerings for OWASP Projects
 * Continue managing Project databases and keeping them up-to-date
 * Manage the current 200+ OWASP projects
 * Research more project funding possibilities