[Owasp-Summit-2011] Membership Committee members for the OWASP Summit

[Michael Coates]

I'll be brief.

Perhaps we don't have a high profile crisis to solve, but we've been doing lots behind the scenes on the membership front. 
(Aside: Take a look at the membership data - https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhSfMVkfLvsldERfMUZXb1hqZ3UwSFVnYUp0bjg4TEE&hl=en&authkey=CJaR9qQB )

We actually have a lot of interesting membership challenges to solve.  Most of them have cropped up over the past few months, so be prepared for lots of information and discussion at the summit.

> 1) do you still want to be a OWASP Global Membership Committee member?
Yes, I'd be happy to contribute to most any committee - but leaving this committee would eliminate 50% of its members :)  So I'm more than happy to keep helping here. I think we need this committee too, that are lots of membership challenges that need a dedicated focused team.

> 2) can you make it to the OWASP Summit?
Yes

> 3) if so, do you need OWASP to cover your expenses (estimated at 2000 USD)
Nope, company is covering it.

> 4) if so, do you feel that your past 6 to 12 months contributions would put you into the 'Active Committee' member category that would entitle you to be funded by OWASP (note that your other OWASP contributions will also entitle you to be sponsored, BUT, that is a separate discussion and more importantly, note that we (OWASP) currently don't have budget approved/available to cover for OWASP Leaders participation (where we have already budget allocated to pay for the Active Committee members participation)
N/A - but for the record I do consider myself as an Active Committee member.




Michael Coates
OWASP



On Dec 10, 2010, at 5:56 AM, dinis cruz wrote:

> Michael and Dan (since you are the only two official members of this committee)
> 
> As you (hopefully) know but now, we are doing a 'winter-cleaning' of our Committees with the view that we need to remove Committee members that have NOT been actively involved in Committee for the last 6 to 12 months. This is part of the organization re-alignment that we are doing at OWASP, with the Summit being the place were the final action plan(s) will be mapped (we also can expect that there will be a significant number of new Committee members that will join in at the Summit)
> 
> So in order to have some objectivity in this process (and due to the fact that OWASP is covering Summit's expenses for the Committee members) a couple months ago, we sent out a survey that asked the Committee members to review their past contributions: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/owasp.org/viewform?formkey=dHNoWkxhRGJBdXBXVURCMVN4ODd6cXc6MQ
> 
> The results kind of (with some exceptions) matched the current perceived levels of participations on the multiple committees (for reference there were 16 committee members that didn't reply)
> 
> One of those that didn't reply was Dan :)
> 
> And here is the current situation, which I need to clarify (note that each Board member is assigned to a committee, and I'm assigned this quarter to this one)
> 
> Although Dan didn't reply to the survey, he has been a semi-active member of this Committee right? From my past experience in dealing with this committee I think it is fair to say that Michael has been more involved, but Dan's was always there and did actively participated in some of the discussion and conference calls.
> 
> On the other hand, this committee has lacked (for a while now) a serious challenge or 'problem to solve' , so it is probably not fair to penalize such lack of committee activity, since there was not 'a lot to do'
> 
> Another important point is that Dan is a massive OWASP leader and does a LOT for OWASP in a number other areas (outside this committee) and he absolutely falls into the category that should (if required) be sponsored to go to the Summit (note that we currently don't have an approved budget for OWASP leaders participation).
> 
> SO....
> 
> My questions to you Dan are (and Michael and others please also comment):
>  
> 1) do you still want to be a OWASP Global Membership Committee member?
> 2) can you make it to the OWASP Summit?
> 3) if so, do you need OWASP to cover your expenses (estimated at 2000 USD)
> 4) if so, do you feel that your past 6 to 12 months contributions would put you into the 'Active Committee' member category that would entitle you to be funded by OWASP (note that your other OWASP contributions will also entitle you to be sponsored, BUT, that is a separate discussion and more importantly, note that we (OWASP) currently don't have budget approved/available to cover for OWASP Leaders participation (where we have already budget allocated to pay for the Active Committee members participation)
> 
> Dinis Cruz
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