[Owasp-leaders] Thank you voters!

Fri Nov 20 11:21:10 EST 2009

That's not something that OWASP in general has a good handle on. Having said
that, the current project structure is a huge step forward from the previous
setup, so this is more of a "wouldn't it be great if we already had that
info?" note than anything.

I'm aware of at least three projects that are London based, but that's only
because I know the project leaders.

James' question of how corporate members were handled is a good one though -
in most cases I imagine that there is some crossover between corporate
members and chapter/project leaders, but I suspect that noone at my company
are now individual members since we joined as a corporate one.

Justin

On 20/11/2009 15:57, "John Steven" <John.Steven at owasp.org> wrote:

> 
> That does raise an interesting question though: I wonder what projects
> my chapter membership are working on.
> 
> <strokes beard>
> 
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Jason Li <jason.li at owasp.org> wrote:
>> That's not entirely correct.
>> 
>> As announced a couple weeks ago on this list, all OWASP project and
>> chapter leaders (past and present) were given honorary OWASP
>> membership status. The list was compiled over the last several months
>> by the Global Projects Committee and Global Chapters Committee and
>> every attempt was made to try and identify past leaders and
>> contributors.
>> 
>> All members (paid and honorary) were given the opportunity to vote and
>> as a result, the vast majority of the OWASP community was eligible to
>> vote.
>> 
>> -Jason
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM, John Steven <John.Steven at owasp.org> wrote:
>>> James,
>>> 
>>> As I undertand it, only paid members could vote. There is no
>>> relationship between BSIMM relationships and paid OWASP membership. I
>>> was just comparing the relative sizes of groups of "people who voted"
>>> and "people who participated in the BSIMM study in one form or
>>> another".
>>> 
>>> That's why I'm going to scrape the BSIMM respondents/interview lists
>>> for people I also see on the OWASP member list. The inverse of that
>>> list makes for a good swath of people who could likely use increased
>>> awareness of OWASP and a membership drive.
>>> 
>>>  I will send an email to this list once I have data.
>>> -jOHN
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM, McGovern, James F. (eBusiness)
>>> <James.McGovern at thehartford.com> wrote:
>>>> Several questions/thoughts:
>>>> 
>>>> - Lots of folks participate in OWASP but a smaller demographic are
>>>> actually paid members. Did voting only go to paid members?
>>>> - For corporate memberships, how many votes do they get relative to
>>>> individual membership?
>>>> - What percentage of BSIMM respondents are paid OWASP members
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: owasp-leaders-bounces at lists.owasp.org
>>>> [mailto:owasp-leaders-bounces at lists.owasp.org] On Behalf Of John Steven
>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:42 PM
>>>> To: owasp-leaders at lists.owasp.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Owasp-leaders] Thank you voters!
>>>> 
>>>> You know guys,
>>>> 
>>>> this IS a big milestone. Congratulations to both Matt and Eoin, I really
>>>> liked your platforms. As my blog said, I liked all the candidates
>>>> actually. More generally, I'm profoundly impressed that OWASP both voted
>>>> new board members and that existing members will stand for re-election.
>>>> Let's not let that slip. The global summit commentary regarding pushing
>>>> this same behavior into chapters moved me to action as well.
>>>> 
>>>> To this end, I'm working to set up a program committee and a chapter
>>>> board. I've asked chapter membership to suggest a term to my chapter
>>>> leadership and I intend to stand for non-Karzai-style re-election as
>>>> well.
>>>> 
>>>> There's a lot of work to do though, as a community guys/gals. I hit Gary
>>>> McGraw and Dan Cornell up for some quick numbers and then started doing
>>>> some simple math.
>>>> 
>>>> If you look at it, the voting population was roughly only 52% of the
>>>> AppSec DC attendance. The voting population represented less than 17% of
>>>> the BSIMM study's respondents and their satellite security resources.
>>>> Pathetic. I'm going to attempt to correlate what the overlap between
>>>> BSIMM respondents and OWASP members is (low overlap indicates a
>>>> membership drive opportunity). these people already care enough to have
>>>> a security group and participate in the study for chrissakes.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm concerned because, modulo Dinis' "[Carp] I forgot to vote" :-P, this
>>>> indicates OWASP has a long way to go before industry ... heck, it's own
>>>> membership ... sees the board as something it can influence and that's
>>>> valuable for them to spend their time thinking about / influencing.
>>>> 
>>>> Joe (RBS), myself, an one-or-two others spoke about industry outreach
>>>> and I think this is a good place to start addressing that problem.
>>>> 
>>>> -jOHN
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Pravir Chandra <chandra at owasp.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> My sentiments exactly. Thanks to all who voted and congrats to Eoin
>>>>> and Matt. They certainly deserve it!
>>>>> This really is a milestone for the OWASP organization since we've
>>>>> completed our first ever Board election. I'm very proud of what we've
>>>>> all built together.
>>>>> p.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, kuai hinojosa
>>>>> <kuai.hinojosa at owasp.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I want to thank all the voters that emailed me saying they had voted
>>>>>> for me, it really make this a positive experience!! I feel like I won
>>>> 
>>>>>> :D
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To the winners congrats again, and please don't forget to count on
>>>>>> Pravir and I to help you accomplish your goals!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kuai Hinojosa
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