Summit 2013/selection process

All discussions for the summit can be found in the summit google group

Planning began with the Global Conferences Committee in August of 2011

Initial budget was reviewed by the OWASP Board at an in-person meetting at AppSec USA in September 2011

A call for voluenteers to join the core team was posted to the OWASP Leaders mailing list on December 12th 2011.

The first planning meeting was held on January 16th


 * An open request for proposals was sent out on January 31st 2012 and the RFP was open until Feburary 29th 2012.
 * X proposals were recieved
 * Summit proposals were collected and a comparison of the financials was created
 * The cheapest was X and most expensive was Y
 * An initial vote to downselect the venues to a more managable level was conducted on March 2nd 2012