One year ago, in the frame of the OSGeo incubation process, OTB team decides to initiate a Project Steering Committee to formalize the way that decisions are taken. It was largely inspired by existing governance in other OSGeo projects related to OTB like GDAL, Quantum GIS or GRASS. This initiative aims in encouraging people and organization to join the effort and participate more actively in the evolution and the decision process of the library. Most people well understand this approach and join the effort to provide high level guidance and coordination for the ORFEO ToolBox to guarantee that OTB remains open and company neutral. This presentation will come back on the set up of this open governance, how it improves the way that the project progress, how it could evolve in the future. It will be also the occasion to interact more largely about open governance and decision making processes in free and open source projects. Manuel Grizonnet (CNES)