LT Meeting Notes 2020‐11‐18

Meeting date: 2020/11/18

Zeek Leadership Team Members

(bold indicates attendance)

• Amber Graner, Corelight (Community Seat, non-voting)
• Aashish Sharma, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
• Fatema Bannat Wala, ESnet
• Johanna Amann, ICSI/Corelight/Berkeley Lab (chair)
• Keith Lehigh, Indiana University
• Nick Turley, Brigham Young University
• Robin Sommer, Corelight (Technical Lead Seat)
• Seth Hall, Corelight
• Vern Paxson, Corelight & University of California at Berkeley (Founder Seat)

Minutes

New Documentation Walkthrough:

• The work on the Book Of Zeek project is continuing. A number of people signed up to write content for different topic areas.
• Things are on track for a February 1st release.
• In the future, we plan to require the documentation to be updated before each new Zeek release. A new Zeek release will not be completed until the documentation is updated.
• Eventually, the documentation will be available as a complete book-type reference.

Zeek Week 2021 action areas:

• Members of the LT signed up for different action areas for Zeek Week; there are a few remaining areas that will need filled in the future.
• We will probably have different BoFs at ZeekWeek. We will set up folders with placeholders for topics.
• As discussed in the last meeting, we plan to have a series of emails for new community members. Amber set up folders with empty documents where we can put snippets that will be converted into emails in the future.

Stats update:

• 20 Minute talks length: we got very positive feedback; this is seen as being more engaging.
• People with especially high attended talks will be asked to hold a webinar about the topic in the future.
• Website statistics: we have about 80% new and 20% returning visitors. To encourage people to come back to the website we should consider consistently adding new content.
• Apart from that, we are gaining followers/stars, etc. everywhere.
• Plan: End of Year report for community that includes details about what changed over the year. We will do this each year going forward.

Zeek.org move to our own GSuite account:

• No big problems so far, we are on track to do this in the next weeks.
• Cost: ~$1000/year.

Next Zeek release:

• Code freeze at the beginning of December.
• If there is anything pressing, make sure there is a ticket.

Meeting notes:

• We will put the notes on the GitHub Zeek wiki instead of the website, and link it from the website.

Resource collection:

• Johanna is compiling a list of all the services we use.