Zeek LT Meeting Notes 2024-10-31

Date of Meeting: 2024/10/31

Zeek Leadership Team Members

(bold indicates attendance)

  • Aashish Sharma, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
  • Christian Kreibich, Corelight (Technical Lead Seat)
  • Fatema Bannat Wala, ESnet
  • Johanna Amann, Corelight (Chair)
  • Keith Lehigh, Indiana University
  • Kelley Misata, Corelight (Community Seat, non-voting)
  • Robin Sommer, Corelight
  • Seth Grover, Idaho National Lab
  • Vern Paxson, Corelight & University of California at Berkeley (Founder Seat)

Minutes

LT chair election:

  • Postponed to next meeting, due to attendance

Zeek benefits corporation:

  • For background on the benefits corporation, see these previous meeting notes.
  • There has been some communication with the lawyers about this, it is still being worked on.

Kelley Misata leaving Corelight:

  • The LT had a short discussion about the effect of Kelley leaving Corelight. This focused on how communication with Corelight will be structured in the future.
  • The LT also spent some time reviewing changes to the website that Kelley had been working on.

Goals for next year:

  • The LT discussed which goals we should set ourselves for new year
  • The main topic that was identified is that the package ecosystem is important, and that we should do some work to get the website there.
  • Other ideas were:
    • Perhaps have a beginner pack of good packages to start?
    • Give an idea of the performance impact of packages (hard to do)
    • Provide a curation process for packages?
    • Smoke testing of packages

There is an Zeek event in Munich which will happen in February.

I apologize that this meeting note post is not very timely - I got distracted from posting these for a couple of meetings for a while.