The OWASP community is facing challenges with funding and providing mature infrastructure and governance for its projects.

An open letter proposes a centralized approach to address these issues, but the author argues that this risks disabling OWASP's strengths, which include discovering and nurturing next-generation talent and enabling grass-roots solutions.

Instead, the author suggests that OWASP should focus on its strengths and collaborate with existing open source foundations to achieve its project-specific goals.

The author argues that a mission centered around a vibrant distributed community and emergent direction differs from the charter for centrally-managed project delivery proposed in the open letter.