[Owasp-board] Alt. Commercial Services Model

Thu Jun 24 16:00:35 UTC 2010

Increase your membership to 3000,5000,10000 individuals  - increase your corporate supporters to 100, 250, 500, 1000 and the numbers really add up and make a healthy professional association IMHO


On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Brennan - OWASP wrote:

> Elephant in the room is MONEY so lets address it.
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> Proposed:
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> $1.00 Donation to OWASP Foundation gets divided between .50 for projects, .25 operations and .25 local chapter responsible for management of the local relationship 
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> $5000 - Corporate Supporters 25/25/50 (includes 5 individual memberships/votes)
> - 1250 - Operations
> - 1250 - Local Chapter
> - 2500 - Projects Budget
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> $50 - Individual Members 
> - 40 - Operations
> - 20 -  Local Chapter
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> Lets quickly add up where we are and see what would happen;
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> TODAY we have 40 Corporate Supporters (and growing) so....
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> 5000 * 40 = 200,0000
> - 50,000 goes to the OWASP operational budget
> - 50,000 goes to the OWASP chapter allocation
> - 100,000 +/- project allocation (annual grant project) that requires projects to have bounties/buckets etc... for qualify for grants. Projects can also get direct sponsorship to OWASP Foundation and then it can be granted to a project.
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> Today we have 1000 members if they renew
> - $25,000 operational budget
> - $25,000  local chapter allocation
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> + Conferences.  if we have 5 per year that target a + cashflow of $50,000 each = $250,000.00 (we can do better if we understand that OWASP is in the professional association business + niche conference business to accomplish the mission of "Raising Visibility" 
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> If this happens, it would provide a operational model of:
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> Operational Budget = $325,000.00
> Local Chapter Allocation = 75,000.00
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> If you take the Operational budget number of $325,000 
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> So that is pretty simple for everyone to get arms around it worldwide....  as for the commercial services endorsement  / logo on project page what ever.. if a corporate supporter wants to put a logo on a website with a link back to the company's service offering page as they are involved with the project (great yippie). In some cases... (tools projects) if said company wants to have (2) versions a OWASP open-source version and a commercially supported version that is a very easy model outside of OWASP. 
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> All donations should be made to the OWASP Foundation Inc., as the entity and then money can be allocated based on <insert guideline> 
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> Simple?  Discussion ?  We need to have a plan submitted with a written outline, reviewed and approved.  The feedback I observed in Sweden from GC members and chapter/project leaders was less than positive to the proposed O2 Dinis model at this time.
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