October 14, 2015

Notice of Recording

 * Notice to all attendees - board meetings are recorded and publicly available as of March, 2013
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 * Recording of 25 September 2015 OWASP Board Meeting

Time
Oct 14 OWASP Board meeting, Start-time is 14:00-15:00 PDT

Location
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Meeting Minutes
= Reading Material = It is a requirement as a board member to fully read all material prior to the start of the meeting

= Meeting Agenda =

Call to Order /OWASP Mission

 * Administrative (List of attendees and Agenda bashing (only if last-minute changes to the agenda are needed) (5 min)

Chairman's Report - Tobias Gondrom

 * structuring of meetings (assign durations to each point) - 1min
 * remove the section on chairman's and role reports and move to a topic based agenda (3min)
 * Start of Budgeting for 2016 discussion & timeline (2min)
 * start of review of Strategic Goals for 2015 and Discussion on Strategic Goals for 2016 - timeline (2min)
 * evotes procedure: how many days should we wait between second of motion to give all board members time to raise discussion?

Vice Chairmain's Report - Josh Sokol

 * Working on new policies to encourage spending down of chapter and project funds. Proposal under new business.
 * Working on a Bylaw change to address Board member attendance policy. Proposal under new business.

Treasurer Report - Fabio Cerullo

 * Topic 1

Secretary Report - Matt Konda

 * Participated in Project Summit
 * Working on DevOps oriented projects including:
 * Tool
 * Documentation
 * Working on developer documentation.
 * OWASP asked back to Chicago Coder Conference
 * Presented at QA Testing conference and submitted for QUEST a national conference.

Updated from Members at Large - Michael Coates, Andrew van der Stock & Jim Manico

 * Update on bylaws - Andrew van der Stock
 * Update on Education strategic goal - Andrew van der Stock
 * Update on scope of wiki update project and problem - Jim Manico
 * Update on project summit participation and value - Jim Manico

Reports

 * Executive Director/Operations Update - [ Rollup Report P.Ritchie]
 * Summary ppt of Sept & YTD P&L & Balance sheet
 * Detail Excel format Sept & YTD 2015 P&L, Balance Sheet, US/EU
 * 2015 Q4 Goals & Deliverables for Ops Staff in Table format

Items below are from Sept. BoD meeting, To be updated.


 * Community Manager Update - Noreen Whysel Strategic Goals & Metrics for Chapters / Volunteer Program & More
 * Director Update - Kate Hartmann - Kate Hartmann Update
 * Project Coordinator -Claudia Aviles Casanovas Update -
 * Membership Update - Membership Report
 * IT Update:  OWASP IT Infrastructure Fall 2015 - Matt Tesauro Report

Old Business
All active board proposals are listed here
 * [Josh Sokol] - Policy to Encourage Spending of Chapter Funds

New Business
All active board proposals are listed here
 * [Jim Manico] - Benchmark Project Controversy
 * Concerns about the OWASP Benchmark Project brand usage from certain vendors
 * Concerns about the OWASP project approval process
 * Input from Simon B: http://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-board/2015-October/016254.html
 * [Tobias Gondrom] - New Proposal: Building on Michael's and your comment about rewarding active projects. I very much like that idea! And I would have a friendly additional proposal.
 * Proposal 11: Any project newly reaching lab status receives a one-time extra USD500 into their project account. Any project newly reaching flagship status receives a one-time extra USD1000 into their project account.
 * [Josh Sokol] - Proposal to Eliminate "At Large" Board Positions

Adjournment

 * Next meeting date/time: