May 2015 Community Manager News Flash
Greetings OWASP Community,
This month, I offered my News Flash lead section to board member, Fabio Cerullo, who reported on the Chapter Leaders meeting at AppSecEU, held last week in Amsterdam. Fabio reports on the many ways that chapter leaders can use their funding. Remember, we are a nonprofit foundation and we do have a responsibility to spend our funding to further our mission. If your chapter is sitting on a lot of funds, read through the following ideas for spending them.
Noreen Whysel
Community Manager
OWASP Foundation
HOW TO: Spending OWASP Chapter Funds
Last week the OWASP AppSec EU conference was held in gorgeous Amsterdam. I wanted to highlight the outstanding job done by the team... not only the event was amazing from start to finish and we set a new record in number of attendees for Europe (580+ to the conference / 140+ to the trainings) but also the energy shown by fellow OWASP leaders was truly contagious.
One of the topics covered during the OWASP Chapter Leader workshop, that was attended by 20+ chapter leaders from all over the world, was on how to spend chapter funds according to OWASP rules a.k.a. The OWASP Chapter Handbook
Here are some ideas:
1) We are thinking on creating an initiative such as Brucon 5x5.
In case you haven't heard about it, I'm attaching an overview of this program. https://docs.google.
it is basically an initiative that allocates 5K Euro/USD for 5 security research projects that could help to build a bridge between security researchers, students, hackers and professionals in the IT and security industry. You could run it at a local level among projects in your chapter or you could extend it to the rest of the world. Ideally, these projects when finished would then be presented at an OWASP AppSec conference.
If you are interested in supporting this kind of activity, please get in touch.
2) Support/Adopt an OWASP Project to develop it further. In this case, you could pick a project and donate funds for translation efforts, write documentation, implement a new feature, bug fixes, etc. For translation efforts, you could hire professional translators to get it translated into any language using our official translation platform Crowdin.
More here: https://crowdin.com/
For bug fixes, we have a platform called Bountysource that you basically allocate funds to a project of your choice and then developers earn "bounties" to fix those bugs in the code.
For new features, on 1st June we are going to launch the OWASP Summer Code Sprint that allow students to work on OWASP projects during the summer and get paid a nominal amount (USD1500). The OWASP Foundation is funding 8 students to work on various projects but if you want to purchase a student slot for a particular project you could do so as well.
3) Reward an active leader/member of your chapter to attend an OWASP Conference or Summit. Next AppSec conference:
4) Organise a Project Summit in your city to bring together academia, industry and professionals. For example: The very successful OWASP OpenSAMM Summit has been co-organised/sponsored by the OWASP Belgium & London chapters plus other industry organisations.
So I would encourage to check your chapter funds below and support these sort of activities:
Also, if you don't currently have funds in your chapter but want to organise an activity there are funds available to do so.. please check out the type of activities below that you could request funding:
Have a great day,
Fabio
CHAPTER ACTIVITY
A new region has been set up for Caribbean countries to more accurately reflect chapters in that area. Curaçao, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are now listed in the Caribbean list on the main chapter page. Puerto Rico, which is currently listed as an inactive chapter, will also appear in the United States list. Contact me if you are interested in restarting this chapter, or view a list of inactive chapters in the Volunteer page of our wiki: http://owasp.force.com/
OWASP Sydney's infosec community has hosted a number of interesting events, and are working with other industry organisations on collaborative content, first with Sectalks, and then with their local AISA chapter. Next up they plan to host a newbie night, called "Pentest 101." Chapter Leader, Norman Yue offered to share resources and bring this kind of event both across Australia and overseas. Visit OWASP Sydney's Meetup Group for details:
Tom Brennan of OWASP NYC/Northern NJ reports that OWASP projects were featured as part of a Cybersecurity & Compliance panel discussion at the East Coast Gaming Congress on May 28th in Atlantic City. The event addressed the growing threat of cyber attacks in the context of online gaming:
http://www.
New Chapters
Cape Town, South Africa: Leader, Timo Goosen, timo.goosen@owasp.org
Columbia, SC, USA: Leader, Frank Catucci, frank.catucci@owasp.
El Salvador: Leader, Nelson Chacon, nelson.chacon@owasp.org
Madurai, India (In Process): Leader, M.S. SivaKumar
Southern New Hampshire, USA: The Kick-Off meeting has been scheduled for June 1 in Salem, NH. Visit the chapter page for details:
Restarted Chapters
Bristol, UK: Leader, Jason Alexander, jason.alexander@
Saint Louis, MO, USA: Leader, Justin Wood, justin.wood@owasp.org
Vitoria, Brasil: Leader, Ulysses Monteiro, ulysses.monteiro@
Student Chapters and Academic Supporters:
Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge, UK - Renewed academic supporter role and student chapter
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronic, Kharkiv, Ukraine - New mailing list
Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK - NEW student chapter
HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS for 2015-16
The form to submit your Honorary Membership request is now available thru June 30 To be sure you qualify, please see https://www.owasp.org/index.php/2015_Global_Board_of_Directors_Election#Honorary_Membership
TOOLS: OWASP Slack Now Available
We have launched a Slack as a resource to discuss project and chapter activity. We now have 38 channels. sign up at http://owasp.herokuapp.com.
COMMUNITY HANGOUT - April 30 Recording
A recording of the April 30 Community Hangout, hosted by Tobias Gondrom, is available athttp://youtu.be/vffjs8Xbfjg. We discussed new #OWASP updates, #AppSec, our ops team and OWASP projects. Stay tuned for the next update announcement via Twitter and the owasp-community mailing list.
EVENT: AppSecUSA
AppSecUSA registration has launched. Visit http://2015.appsecusa.org/ for conference information and the registration form and follow us @AppSecUSA on Twitter. Please look for a separate mailing with information about accessing the Leader discount code. In the meantime, here is our press release announcing our Keynote lineup.
EVENT: AppSecEU Slidedecks and Recordings
The AppSecEU Team is gathering slides and videos from the event last week in Amsterdam. Some have already been posted to the @AppSecEU Twitter feed. Watch the AppSec.eu website for details.
RESOURCES: In this Issue
Funding Resources:
Chapter Funding - Current Allocation (Donation Scoreboard):
Chapter Leader Handbook:
Volunteer Opportunities:
Honorary Membership Form:
OWASP Slack Channels:
April 30 Community Hangout:
AppSecUSA:
Contact Me
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