She has a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Maha’s research focus is open source communities, how they coordinate work, their changing governance structures, the role of transparency in both building communities and sustaining them over time, and the nature of how serious work is carried out in online settings. Her report on the total cost of adoption of open source software by the UK public sector was commissioned by the UK Cabinet Office and the OFE organization. This research furthered her interest in the peculiarities of open source adoption in the public sector especially when compared to the growing uptake of open source by the private sector.