Date of Meeting: 2025/03/20
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
- Vacant (Community Seat, non-voting)
- Robin Sommer, Corelight
- Seth Grover, Idaho National Lab
- Vern Paxson, Corelight & University of California at Berkeley (Founder Seat)
Minutes
Training subgroup
The training subgroup used to have regular meetings. Nowadays there is not as much need for these ongoing meetings. The LT discussed if to switch these meetings to ad-hoc meetings, or to fold them into the Zeek community meeting. No discussion was reached – Fatema is going to reach out to active members of the meeting.
As last year, it is planned that there will be a full-day Zeek training at the NSF Cybersecurity summit.
Community liaison
Corelight is going to employ a community liaison that will spend most of their time working for the Zeek project. The LT got an update on the hiring progress. At this point of time, there are some promising leads.
The LT also talked about what a community liaison should tackle first, after joining.
Ideas brought up were:
- Event strategy – this included some discussion of the recent event in Munich, and the idea of co-locating with other events
- Writing articles
- Making the team more visible; at the moment it is kind of hard to figure out wo we are
Munich workshop
The LT did a short recap of the Zeek workshop in Munich. We got good feedback; there were 45 people attending, including the Zeek team. Most of them attended the training day.
The audience was a good mix – a lot of people new to Zeek, but also plenty that knew it well.
We advertised the event using our normal Zeek channels – which seems to have worked fine.
Most of the attendees were from Germany, with a couple of them being from the surrounding countries.
As it was held at an academic institution, the event was inexpensive; the facilities were free and catering was the only real cost.
We have plans for another potential event in Europe in the beginning o