[Owasp-board] SPI OWASP Membership

Tue Jan 30 23:16:17 UTC 2007

Hi Michael

I had a cold and fever for the past couple days which affected my schedule.

Regarding the questions on your email:

   - I sent the email to the owasp board and there where no major issues
   raised
   - Regarding the payment in Q2, this is not a common practice, but it
   has been accepted.

   - So here are the main points:

   - SPI to become an OWASP member allocating its membership fees to the
      OWASP SiteGenerator Project
      - This 'money allocation' will be mentioned in the OWASP
      Membership drive and in the OWASP SpoC (Spring of Code)
      - SPI commits to pay the $9000 membership fees in the 1st of
      April (or close)
      - SPIs logo will be added to the others on OWASP home page and
      Membership page before SpoC anoucement
      - SPI is free to issue a press release about this (but the
      owasp-board would like to have a read of it before it is published)

regarding the timelines I think that we are looking at the week of Feb  12th
for the SpoC anoucement (with the membership drive  a couple days or 1 week
later)

Dinis Cruz
Chief OWASP Evangelist, Are you a member yet?
http://www.owasp.org

On 1/30/07, Michael Sutton <msutton at spidynamics.com> wrote:
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>  Dinis,
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> If I remember correctly, I believe that you were planning to launch the
> membership drive on Feb. 1st so I just wanted to make sure that this
> message didn't fall through the cracks.
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> Thanks,
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> Michael
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>
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>
> *From:* Michael Sutton
> *Sent:* Friday, January 26, 2007 3:29 PM
> *To:* Dinis Cruz (dinis at ddplus.net)
> *Subject:* SPI OWASP Membership
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> Dinis,
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> Thanks for taking the time to speak with me the other day. I just had a
> good talk with Tracy Simmons, VP of Marketing regarding having SPI Dynamics
> become a vendor member of OWASP. She agreed that OWASP is an important
> industry initiative that we need to do more to support it. I let her know
> about the membership drive that you will be launching and how new members
> will have the option of ear marking their membership fees to certain
> projects. We both agreed that the Site Generator project would be a perfect
> fit for SPIs contribution. She would like to take you up on your offer to
> mention SPI becoming a member and tying its membership fees to the Site
> Generator project when you announce the new membership drive. Given that she
> hasn't budgeted for the $9,000 membership fee that became an important
> selling point so I'd certainly appreciate any mention of SPI as it will only
> help me to secure further SPI support in the future.
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> Tracy has also asked if we could agree to become members now, so that we
> can be mentioned during the membership drive and have our corporate logo
> added to the OWASP member list but make payment of the $9,000 at the
> beginning of Q2. This is necessary as she does not have the available
> marketing funds in the Q1 budget. SPI would of course be willing to provide
> you with whatever is necessary to ensure that you're comfortable that
> payment is agreed to in Q2. Tracy also wanted to clarify the date when you
> will be announcing the new membership drive and if know you would be
> comfortable having SPI issue a press release announcing our support for
> OWASP?
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> Thanks Dinis, I look forward to building a stronger relationship between
> SPI and OWASP.
>
>
>
> Michael Sutton
>
> Security Evangelist
>
> SPI Dynamics
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> http://portal.spidynamics.com/blogs/msutton
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>
>

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