Date of Meeting: 2025/05/01
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
- Michelle Pathe (Community Seat, non-voting)
- Robin Sommer, Corelight
- Seth Grover, Idaho National Lab
- Vern Paxson, Corelight & University of California at Berkeley (Founder Seat)
Minutes
Slack clean-up/revamp
Michelle presented a proposal about a re-structuring of the Zeek Slack workspace. The LT discussed the proposal and was generally in favor. There are still a couple of details to be ironed out; once this is done the changes will be presented to the community.
Community Survey
The Zeek project is planning to do another community survey. The last time we did this was in 2023. Michelle created a number of questions for the community survey, which the LT discussed. The LT considered the potential of comparing results of this survey with the last, as well as particulars about some of the questions.
AI content on community.zeek.org and in our Slack workspace
The LT was made aware that there have been several instances of people trying to post AI/LLM generated content, including on Slack and in our community forum. This included AI generated answers to questions of other users, with the answers to the questions being misleading and containing information that is just plainly wrong.
The LT agrees that while LLMs can be useful tools, this kind of use is not desirable. Posts in our communities should be helpful and correct. The LT considers low quality posts to be a form of unprofessional conduct, a violation of our code of conduct.
Currently, there have only been a couple of occurrences of this; if this becomes a more widespread problem we might add discussion of the concerns in more detail to the code of conduct.
Zeek Benefit Corporation
The LT discussed the feedback we got from the lawyer. We now have a potential way forward which would allow us to start operations and move the trademarks to the benefit corporation. We will invite the lawyer to the next LT meeting to discuss a couple remaining questions.