[Secureideas-base-devel] Fwd: [Snort-users] BASE Updates and the way forward

[Joel E. <es...@kn...>]

Cool.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jennifer Steffens <jen...@so...>
> Date: May 26, 2005 12:10:09 PM EDT
> To: Joel Esler <es...@gm...>, kjo...@se...
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] BASE Updates and the way forward
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>
> Hi guys,
>
> I have posted a news item on snort.org regarding your meeting next 
> week (see below). Please let me know if you would like any changes or 
> additional information added.  I will also try to coordinate getting 
> Marty and/or Matt on as well. I am always happy to include news items 
> or any additional information about the BASE project on snort.org, so 
> do not hesitate to send things directly to me as well.
>
> Regards,
> Jennifer
>
>
> Joel Esler + Kevin Johnson have planned a brainstorming meeting for 
> the BASE project for June 1st 2005 at approximately 1900 EST (7 PM). 
> The meeting will take place on IRC, freenode.net in the #secureideas 
> room. They plan to iron out what the goals are for the project and see 
> if they can't get some more people interested in working on 
> development.
>
> They are even hoping to have Marty and Matt Watchinski there, if they 
> can coax them out of their traveling schedules!! (I'll see what I can 
> do to help there)
>
> If you don't know how to sign onto IRC, which, some people don't, it's 
> okay... take a look into XChat (many platforms, including mac os x... 
> this is what I use) or for you Windows people, mIRC.
>
> BASE is a great project so I hope everyone can join in. If you have 
> any questions, contact ba...@se... 
> <mailto:ba...@se...>.
>
> Joel Esler wrote:
>
>> Hey Everyone!!!
>>
>> We,  here at the "BASE Development Center" have taken a vacation for 
>> about a month, and are now ready to move forward, onward, and upward.
>>
>> 1st  ->  I would like to personally thank everyone for being part of 
>> this project, from developers to end-users.  We've been mentioned in 
>> several books and magazines, many interviews, even more articles, and 
>> a countless number of websites.  (Just Google "BASE" or it's full 
>> name, you'll see)  With over 16 THOUSAND downloads (and that's not 
>> counting people that have downloaded it from third party websites), 
>> we must be doing something right!!  We have an official debian port, 
>> and an official BSD port now as well!!
>>
>> Even Marty Roesch has told everyone using ACID should switch to 
>> BASE!!  Thanks Marty!
>>
>> 2nd -> We are going to release 1.1.3 soon.   Would like to get this 
>> release out the door by June 15th, this release is mainly going to be 
>> bug fixes, no really big new functionality, we're saving that...  See 
>> #4
>>
>> I think we should also extend special thanks to Alejandro for getting 
>> PEAR Graphing up and doing away with "jpgraph".  Thanks Alejandro!
>>
>> 3rd -> We are going to keep that optempo (Operational Tempo) going 
>> with 1.2.  We want to finalize the role-basing system, to be able to 
>> assign groups, users, and sensors to certain people and vice-versa.  
>> Securing the interface basically.  That's going to take a good two 
>> months to get done and finalized.
>>
>> 4th -> Kevin and I would like to call a meeting.  Of all members of 
>> the developers team as well as all members of these mailing lists.  I 
>> would like to schedule it for ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, JUNE 1st 2005.  
>> The meeting will take place on IRC, freenode.net in the #secureideas 
>> room at approximately 1900 EST (7 PM).  Please be there, we'd like to 
>> iron out what our goals are for the project and see if we can't get 
>> some more people interested in working on development.
>>
>> Also like to have a big fat brain storm with all the experts of the 
>> community.  I'd love to have people like Marty and Matt Wachinski 
>> there, if we could coax them out of their traveling schedules!!
>>
>> If you don't know how to sign onto IRC, which, some people don't, 
>> it's okay..  take a look into XChat (many platforms, including mac os 
>> x... this is what I use) or for you Windows people, mIRC.  I don't 
>> care if you write your own IRC client, please be there.
>>
>> 5th ->  If you haven't gleaned from the above, #secureideas on 
>> irc.freenode.net is the official BASE channel.  We're using it mainly 
>> for discussion of development right now, but please feel free to sit 
>> and idle.  :)  We're going to be doing alot of public things in the 
>> channel.
>>
>> 6th ->  If anyone is on this list, and is interested in becoming a 
>> member of the development team for BASE, please contact us @ 
>> ba...@se... , we'd like to get a few more developers in on 
>> this project to make sure we can be as productive as can be.
>>
>> 7th -> We ask that if you are going to have BASE in a book, or 
>> article, or what-have-you.  Please let us know, again at 
>> ba...@se..., we'd love to read the articles and books.
>>
>> Thank you all for your support, if you have any questions, please 
>> email us at ba...@se... , I will be away from email until 
>> next week.  (traveling.. vacation)
>>
>> Joel Esler + Kevin Johnson
>>    BASE Project Leads
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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