OWASP Project Manager Activity Reports/August 13 2012

DHS Funding Proposal

 * The DHS Host Project Funding proposal has been submitted. We are waiting to hear back from DHS regarding possible interviews of our Host Project Team Leaders. We are in the process of scheduling a meeting with all involved to speak about this proposal and the interviews in more depth. Thank you to Kate Hartmann and Eoin Keary for all of their hard work on this proposal. We hope to hear from Deb sometimes this week. The proposal is for $25,000 USD.

Projects Set Up

 * OWASP Top 10 Defences
 * OWASP OpenESSS Project
 * OWASP Java J2EE Secure Development Curriculum
 * OWASP AW00T
 * OWASP Passfault
 * OWASP OctoMS
 * OWASP OWTF
 * OWASP Java Uncertain Form Submit Prevention
 * OWASP Ecuador
 * OWASP Path Traverser
 * OWASP Watiqay
 * OWASP Mantra OS
 * OWASP Security Shepherd
 * OWASP Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework

Project Set Up Confirmations

 * OWASP File Hash Repository
 * OWASP WebGoat.NET
 * OWASP AJAX Crawling Tool
 * OWASP Odz MultiCMSScanner Project

Pending Project Applications

 * XSSER: Waiting to hear back from Project Leader. Will not confirm his identity.
 * OWASP BSI IT-Grundschutz Baustein Webanwendungen Review: Waiting to hear back from the Project Leader.
 * 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

 * Supported Mark Curphey's efforts to engage OWASP community in the activity of producing videos to document the community's wide vitality and diversity;
 * 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

Routine Tasks

 * My daily routine always includes answering a relatively wide range of questions regularly posed by OWASP members and mainly by OWASP Projects leaders; I receive such inquiries either directly or through the OWASP Website Global Feedback & Inquiry Form. The variety of matters that I currently deal with can be checked in my email tool and the tree of folders built to store, follow up and organize them as follows 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. I would like to note that to perform this task, and all the others projects' related ones, I have always had relevant support and guidance from the OWASP Global Projects Committee.
 * I've kept all OWASP Projects Dashboard 2.0's databases up-to-date as follows:
 * OWASP Reviews Dashboard,
 * OWASP Project Reviewers Database,
 * Projects 2.0/By Set Up Date Order,
 * Projects 2.0/By Alphabetic Order,
 * OWASP Training,
 * 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