Many people outside of Google have contributed small patches to both projects. A small set (maybe 20) of regular contributors have given commit access and an @

Many people outside of Google have contributed small patches to both projects. A small set (maybe 20) of regular contributors have given commit access and an @chromium.org account. E.g. http://blog.chromium.org/2008/12/welcome-pawe-to-team.html http://blog.chromium.org/2008/12/welcome-pawe-to-team.html . (A few of those people, including Paweł, were later hired by Google.) The vast majority of work is Googlers.