The Open Information Security Foundation held it's first Board Meeting and Planning Session. The meeting was incredibly productive, and we were able to secure the support of a number of new organizations and vendors. We're very excited about the future, and we've a lot of news to share.
Most of the news and decisions that have been made we'll release in individual statements in order to avoid information overload. But overall let me summarize what the Foundation is doing and where we all stand:
We have received allocation of the second phase funding, and we're part of the OSSI HOST program (http://www.oss-institute.org). This allows us to begin immediately our coding efforts. We have finalized hiring of about ten contractors for everything from coding and research to quality assurance and sysadmin work.
These individuals will be introduced to the community soon, but you know most of them already. I'm VERY excited about the team that's coming together. That said we have room for more. Primarily we need more programmers, but we are also in search of an exceptional individual to become our documentation project lead. If you are interested please email
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We are in the process of building out our infrastructure. Code repository, QA lab and hardware, and public facing hosting and the like. We are in need of all sorts of assistance, the less we spend on hardware and infrastructure the more goes into coding efforts of course. If you or your organization is interested in becoming a member of the Foundation Consortium (which grants the ability to use an alternative more permissive license) please contact us now. We have quite a few needs that will save the foundation's resources for more directly beneficial effort.
We'll be announcing a number of other things shortly, including a new draft of our bylaws, new mailing lists, and a list of the features we're going to build into our first release. Please stay tuned.
While we're getting to coding later than we had hoped last year, rest assured we are still committed to a production release of the engine by the end of 2009! We will make this goal and we have the resources and brain trust to make it happen!!
Thanks to all for your support to date. This is truly a community driven and supported project, and we look forward to cementing the relationships with both the community and the organizations that will be our constituency over time.