Trained as anthropologist, she examines the ethics and online collaboration with a focus on Free and Open Source Software. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those hackers who work on the largest free software project, Debian. She has published numerous articles on the ethics of Free Software and is completing a book manuscript "Coding Freedom: Hacker Pleasure and the Ethics of Free and Open Source Software".