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Read about the OWASP Manifesto and how they enable organizations to develop, maintain, and purchase trusted applications. Discover their major initiatives, history, funding model, local chapters, membership, projects, standards, certification, training, and more.
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OWASP 2.0membrs Andrew van der Stock OWASP Executive Director vanderaj@owasp.org
Manifesto • Enabling organizations to develop, maintain, and purchase applications that they can trust
It’s about community • Built on great foundations built by our contributors • Greater peer to peer participation • Emphasis on local community building • More support for your projects
It’s about building a solid foundation • Transparency • Improve membership experience • Membership packages • Individual • Corporate • Sponsor • Starter chapter pack • Key projects • Projects
It’s about delivery • We have delivered some really cool stuff recently • We have a very full year ahead • Volunteer burn out happens • We’re here to help you
Major initiatives Top 10 Guide Training CLASP Conferences Ajax J2EE WebGoat .NET Building our brand Yours! Local chapters Testing Guide Project incubator WebScarab Wiki Validation Forums Certification Blogs
History • 2000: Mark Curphey and Microsoft Word • 2001: OWASP Guide 1.0 • Sep 2002: Many volunteers finish 1.1.1 • Oct 2002: owasp-leaders created • Leaders from each project • This meritocracy still leads us today
History • 2003: OWASP Foundation created • Chair: Jeff Williams • Conferences Chair: Dave Wichers • OWASP Leaders (about 30 odd people) • OWASP Members • OWASP Users
OWASP Foundation • Key activity: self-sustaining this financial year • Currently earning a bit of cash • Not enough to pay for a full time employee • How to spend the money? • and still do the stuff we want?
Transparency • Need your input on our executive leadership model • Publish finances at least once per year • Sponsorship schedule (inc. in kind) • Propose move to member-only elections in 2007 timeframe (à la NetBSD, Debian, etc) • Support? (Show of hands!)
Funding model • Need to increase OWASP individual members • Current funding model is broken • We will fix the model, but we need your input • Funds for local development • Some money for room booking fees, pizza, etc • Money to build global organization
Let’s meet! • We want you to meet your peers • Find your local chapter via our website
Local chapters • Easily the most useful OWASP activity • Lots of chapters all around the world • We want more! • Chapter Starter Pack
Local chapter support • Use our Internet resources • Announce meetings well in advance • Have a schedule well in advance • Be consistent • Community: blogs, forum - in your local language • Present new stuff • ... or borrow other chapter’s slides
Guidelines for chapters • Encourage membership in OWASP • Try to be easily found and a popular time • Always try to meet, if only for drinkies • Local sponsorship by vendors is fine • Try not to be 0wned by the vendors (of any type) • Protect yourself - insurance, talk choices, etc
Membership drive • We need you to join • ... once we have worked out the funding model • $100 USD • Members get to vote and lead • Renewing members will get our membership pack • What do you want to see?
Leadership focus • Developing OWASP Foundation and infrastructure • Helping you deliver timely, useful projects • Keeping today’s flagship products fresh and relevant
Updating old favorites • OWASP Guide 3.0 PDF, book, and Wiki • Top 10 2007 Wiki Edition - need volunteers • Testing Guide 1.0 PDF and Wiki - need volunteers
Standards • Top 10 is an awareness product, not a standard • Need a standard • Relevant, useful and practical • Long lived and stable • Not particularly verbose or long • Must take input from key users (PCI, DHS,etc)
Certification • Our brand is important to us • Need something to help get rid of freeloaders • Do we really want to run a certification lab? • Need a certification project
Training • Many firms using OWASP Top 10 / Guide without permission • We need a training project • Top 10 1/2 day (Business types) • Architects 1 Day • Developer 3 Day • Certify trainers? Train the trainer? • How to ensure we don’t get ripped off or brand sullied? Or destroy friendly businesses?
Project Focus • Participate! • What do you want us to focus on?
Project incubators • Initiate any project you like • Each project will have its own space • Community: Link to team member blogs and forum • Resources: Samples, downloads, private workspace
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