September 2015 Community News Flash
AppSecUSA 2015 is just over a week away in San Francisco, CA on September 22-25th. Please join me for the
Chapter Leader Workshops. If you would like to present a brief show-and-tell at any of these sessions,
let me know. I am looking for examples of successful meeting formats, communication and collaboration tool demos and examples of outreach and mentoring. What have you done to grow your membership, increase engagement and promote application security in your area? I encourage you to participate whether you are a chapter leader or interested in becoming more involved in your chapter. Project leaders may find the sessions on staff support and financing to be of interest, so please plan on attending.
I welcome feedback on this newsflash from the full spectrum of our community: chapters, projects, and initiatives. Many of the same issues that affect chapters, including funding, volunteer engagement and events, also affect projects and other activities. Be sure to read the news flash for tips and ideas for your team.
Noreen Whysel
Community Manager
OWASP Foundation
In this Issue:
- FEATURE: Mentoring
- Announcing WASPY Award Winners
- Get Ready to Vote for the Global Board of Directors!
- The Chapter Leaders Workshop at AppSecUSA
- Chapter Activity: New Chapters, Leader Transitions
- First Meeting of the Projects Self-Help Group
- Resources
FEATURE: Mentoring
As the
OWASP Summer Code Sprint wraps up, I wanted to highlight some of our project and chapter led mentoring activity around the world. The Summer Code Sprint supported eight students working on projects for OWASP Hackademic, OWTF, ZAP, AppSensor and Seraphimdroid. All eight teams completed their requirements by the September 4 deadline and will each receive the second half of their $1500 grant. One student plans to continue as a contributor to Hackademic Challenges. Project Coordinator Claudia Aviles-Casanovas reported, "Amazing performance and dedication from the students." The OWASP Summer Code Sprint 2015 is a wonderful way to provide incentives to students to contribute to OWASP projects.
The
OWASP Northern New Jersey chapter is gearing up for another year of mentoring with the NJIT Capstone program. Project activities, mentoring and grading are carried out by members of the Northern NJ chapter. Tom Brennan, NY/NJ chapter president and candidate for the 2016 international board of directors, said, "We started a mentor program, and for the last several years we have been investing in academia directly. We have students actively work on OWASP projects improving the quality of them and starting new ones." I attended last year's showcase and it was a blast learning what the students had been working on. I am looking forward to this year's results.
OWASP Women in AppSec is also exploring developing a mentoring program for women interested in starting or transitioning to a career in Application Security. "I'm fond of the idea of a mentor program and how OWASP can promote projects more," OWASP Foundation board member Jim Manico recently said on the owasp-leaders mailing list. "These seem pretty high on the 'critical things for projects' list."
By participating in projects like the OWASP Summer Code Sprint, capstone project mentoring or other University and Hackademic Challenges, a student can get real life experience seasoned guidance of an AppSec professional, while contributing to an open source project. If you have an idea for a mentoring project that you would like to propose for your chapter or project or a completed activity we should highlight,
let us know.
Announcing WASPY Award Winners
The results of the OWASP
WASPY Awards have been announced and posted to our website. Thanks to all who made a nomination and congratulations to the winners.
Open/Leading Category
European Region: Eoin Keary
United States Region: Jeremiah Grossman
Latin American Region: Mateo Martinez
Caribbean Region: Johanna Curiel
Integrity/Learning Category
European Region: Antonis Manaras & Mateo Martinez (OWASP Student Chapters Program Leaders)
United States Region: Pedro Peralta
Asia/Pacific/Middle East Region: John Patrick Lita
Caribbean Region: Johanna Curiel
Innovation/Sharing Category
African Region: Munir Njiru
European Region: Fiona Collins
Latin American Region: Diego Ademir
United States Region: Jeremy Long
Global/Growing
African Region: Munir Njiru
Asia/Pacific/Middle East Region: John Patrick Lita
European Region: Jason Alexander
Latin American Region: John Vargas
United States Region: Jerry Hoff
View the complete results and vote counts at
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/WASPY_Awards_2015#Results
Get Ready to Vote for the Global Board of Directors!
To be eligible to cast a vote in this years Global BoD election, all individuals must be a current member in good standing with a membership on file with the foundation as of Sept 30, 2015.
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/2015_Global_Board_of_Directors_Election#Who_Can_Vote.3F.
Chapter Leaders Workshop at AppSecUSA
The Chapter Leader Workshops at AppSecUSA are designed for OWASP members currently leading or interested in starting a chapter in their local area. We are hosting four separate sessions plus afternoon Birds of a Feather flex sessions on Thursday AM and Friday all day in Room F on the Pacific Concourse level. Do you have an interesting format for chapter meetings? Would you like to demonstrate a tool? Do you have any challenges you are trying to overcome?
Contact me if you would like to present an idea or a problem for discussion. We invite participation from all conference attendees whether they are a chapter leader, project leader or volunteers. If you are interested in how to plan and run OWASP activities at any level, these sessions are for you!
Click on the session title below for a full description of each workshop session:
10:30am
11:30am
10:30am
11:30am
1:00pm
For more information about the Chapter Leaders Workshop, or to suggest content to cover or issues of concern to you,
please contact me.
CHAPTER ACTIVITY
New Chapters
Chapter Restart
