# Zeek LT Meeting Notes 2026-08-06

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-lt-meeting-notes-2026-08-06/8064>\
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**Created:** [September 2, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-lt-meeting-notes-2026-08-06/8064 "2026-09-02T13:05:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-lt-meeting-notes-2026-08-06/8064/1 "2026-09-02T13:05:12Z")

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Date of Meeting: 2026/08/06

## 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)**
- **Michelle Pathe (Community Seat, non-voting)**
- **Robin Sommer, Corelight**
- Seth Grover, Idaho National Lab
- **Vern Paxson, Corelight & University of California at Berkeley (Founder Seat)**
- Vacant

## Minutes

**LT election**

The LT election cycle will start on August 12th. 4 seats are up for re-election - Johanna Amann, Robin Sommer, and Seth Grover, plus the seat that was not filled in the last election. For more information, please see our [election announcement post](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-lt-election-august-2026/8048)

**Security Issues**

The Zeek project members are currently very busy with security issues – due to LLMs we have gotten a high number of them. This will probably continue for at least the near-term future and limits the feature development that is going on.

**Berkeley Workshop**

The LT discussed some logistics of the upcoming [Berkeley workshop](https://zeek.org/zeek-workshop-berkeley-2026/), including details of the room, some speaker updates, and how to advertise the event more widely.

**Community survey**

The LT got a small update of the current state of the [community survey](https://community.zeek.org/t/the-2026-zeek-project-survey-is-now-open/8001).

**Community call format**

The LT had a brainstorming session about the format of the Zeek community call. We discussed possibilities of refreshing the format. We had people presenting in the call in the past – which is great, but it’s hard to source enough content.

Ideas that were discussed are:

- Highlight it as an opportunity to ask live question
- The fact that the timing might make it complex for some people to attend was brought up
- We could try announcing content in advance more
- We could try talking more about things like new features
- It was also discussed what the metric should be – live attendees vs later views on YouTube.

If you have any ideas/opinions about this, please contact us at [lt@zeek.org](mailto:lt@zeek.org) (or comment here)