[Zeek] Communication channels

Mike Dopheide dopheide at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 15:02:29 PDT 2019


There are feelings within the community that a Slack channel for the
community should be 'owned/run/administered' outside of Corelight.

-Dop

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:09 PM Stuart H <stu.h at live.com> wrote:

> After Amber’s talk today at ZeekWeek I thought I’d pitch in some ideas to
> help build the community.
>
>
>
> I think there are a few types of interaction the community has, there may
> be others:
>
>    - Asking questions
>    - Reporting bugs
>    - Announcing things
>
>
>
> Asking questions - We could use some form of group instant messenger or
> more of a forum style platform. Group instant messengers include Slack,
> Discord, Rocket chat, Discourse etc. The key thing is to make barrier to
> entry low, while I use IRC it’s not exactly user friendly. Forum style
> platforms include Stackexchange, Discourse etc. – I see these as
> replacements for the Mailing list which may find difficult to use, search
> etc.
>
>
>
> Reporting bug – I guess we should be using GitHub to report the actual bug
> but normally you need troubleshoot by asking questions or chatting.
>
>
>
> Announcing things – Perhaps some sort of distribution list that you
> subscribe to? Or perhaps just pinning topics on the forum platform?
>
>
>
> From what I’ve looked at so far Discourse looks pretty good and for open
> source projects you can apply for free hosting:
> https://blog.discourse.org/2018/11/free-hosting-for-open-source-v2/
>
>
>
> What do you think? Any more thoughts?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stu
>
>
>
> *From: *<zeek-bounces at zeek.org> on behalf of Amber Graner <
> akgraner at corelight.com>
> *Date: *Monday, 3 June 2019 at 14:35
> *To: *Woot4moo <tscheponik at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *zeek <zeek at zeek.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Zeek] Communication channels
>
>
>
> I’ll research some options and ask for the LT to review at the next
> meeting.
>
>
>
> Please continue to add your your thoughts.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~Amber
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:34 AM Woot4moo <tscheponik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Agree. While giphy integration is a good time killer, I am far more
> interested in modern amenities such as threads and history. I presume
> Matrix would get us there or could be close with some pull requests.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:24 AM Mark Gardner <mkg at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 11:45 AM anthony kasza <anthony.kasza at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I don't use the IRC channel but I would lurk in a Zeek Slack channel.
>
>
>
> Please choose an open standard rather than a walled garden. Someone above
> suggested Matrix as a possibility.
>
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