**Collection of the Governing Board meeting minutes**
**31st October 2018**
The Trusted Firmware project held its own first Board meeting on Wednesday 31st October 2018.
Representatives from all the six founding members were present and everyone gave a brief overview of its involvement into the project.
The Board discussed the possibility of defining metrics for the project success, such as adoption, deliverables, milestones.
TF-A and TF-M are likely to start with different tracks and metrics, due to the different maturity level, but the end goal would be to harmonise them.
The project outbound licensing terms need to take into account the existing inclusion of code from 3rd party projects that are released with a different license with respect to the one covering Trusted Firmware (BSD 3-Clause).
Any new addition of external code from projects that use a license other than the BSD 3-Clause license will need to be fully understood in context and approved by the Board.
The Board agreed to have public summary of meeting minutes to be shared on a dedicated wiki section.
TF-A and TF-M are currently providing monthly status reports publicly available on the blog. Feedbacks to the board on the usefulness of those are welcome.
The formation of a Technical Steering Committee ("TSC") was also discussed and the Board agreed to have one common TSC for both TF-A and TF-M that can have two separate TF-A/TF-M sections during TSC public meetings.
Trusted Firmware already has public mailing lists to discuss project technical topics:
https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/mailman/listinfo/tsc
https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/mailman/listinfo/tf-m
https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/mailman/listinfo/tf-a
https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/mailman/listinfo/tf-a-tests
The Board agreed to reconvene on a monthly basis with the next meeting planned by Wednesday 28th November.
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