The key decisions concerning the FreeBSD project, such as the overall direction of the project and who is allowed to add code to the source tree, are made by a <link xlink:href="@@URL_RELPREFIX@@/administration.html#t-core">core team</link> of 9 people. There is a much larger team of more than 350 <link xlink:href="@@URL_RELPREFIX@@/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.html#staff-committers">committers</link> who are authorized to make changes directly to the FreeBSD source tree.