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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->

  <foil id="freebsd-organization">
    <title>FreeBSD Organization</title>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>A number of committees with special responsibilities
        have been created within the FreeBSD Project to ensure that
        the project continues to move in a positive
        direction.</listitem>

      <listitem>The FreeBSD <emphasis>Core Team</emphasis> is a group
        of 9 developers elected by the committers for 2 year
        terms.</listitem>

      <listitem>The FreeBSD <emphasis>Ports Management Team</emphasis>
	is responsible for ensuring that the FreeBSD Ports Collection
	is stable, up-to-date and full-deatured.  Its secondary responsibility
	is to coordinate among the committers and developers working on
	it.</listitem>

      <listitem>The FreeBSD <emphasis>Documentation Engineering Team</emphasis>
	is responsible for defining and following up documentation goals for
	the committers in the Documentation Project.</listitem>

      <listitem>The FreeBSD <emphasis>Release Engineering
        Team</emphasis> is a small group of developers responsible for
        managing the release process.</listitem>

      <listitem>The FreeBSD <emphasis>Security Team</emphasis> is responsible
	for keeping the community aware of bugs, exploits and security risks
	affecting the FreeBSD src and ports trees, and to promote and
	distribute information needed to safely run FreeBSD systems.
	Furthermore, it is responsible for resolving software bugs affecting
	the security of FreeBSD and issuing security advisories.</listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </foil>