Sverma

= Candidacy for Sugar Labs Oversight Board (SLOB) =

= Candidacy for Sugar Labs Oversight Board (SLOB) =

== Background ==

== Background ==

I am a professor in the Information Systems department at San Francisco State University [1]. My Ph.D. dissertation was based on how technology adoption works with individuals and in communities [2]. My work involves teaching and research in Management Information Systems (MIS). I teach courses on “Managing Open Source” [3] and “Media and the Web” [4]. My research revolves around the development and use of Free and Open Source Software. Some of my research has stemmed from collaborative work with the Open Source Initiative [5], and Ubuntu [6]. I also serve on the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association [7], which gives me tremendous insights into how large FOSS projects work both in the community and the enterprise.

I am a professor in the Information Systems department at San Francisco State University<ref>San Francisco State University, Sameer Verma, Ph.D., 2015, https://faculty.sfsu.edu/~sverma/</ref>. My Ph.D. dissertation was based on how technology adoption works with individuals and in communities<ref>Sameer Verma, Diffusion and Adoption of Multicasting: Role of Implicit versus Explicit Communication Initiation Methods, 1999, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255572948_DIFFUSION_AND_ADOPTION_OF_MULTICASTING_ROLE_OF_IMPLICIT_VERSUS_EXPLICIT_COMMUNICATION_INITIATION_METHODS</ref>. My work involves teaching and research in Management Information Systems (MIS). I teach courses on “Managing Open Source”<ref>San Francisco State University, Managing Open Source, 2005, http://is.sfsu.edu/node/145</ref> and “Media and the Web”<ref>San Francisco State University, Multimedia Business Applications Development , 2015, http://courses.sfsu.edu/courses/29446</ref>. My research revolves around the development and use of Free and Open Source Software. Some of my research has stemmed from collaborative work with the Open Source Initiative<ref>Open Source Initiative, Report of License Proliferation Committee, 2006, https://opensource.org/proliferation-report</ref>, and Ubuntu<ref>Alberto Onetti, Marco Talaia, Vincenza Odorici, Manuela Presutti, Sameer Verma, The role of serial entrepreneurs in the internationalization of global start-ups. A business case, , http://www.senatehall.com/strategic-management?article=368</ref>. I also serve on the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association<ref>Drupal Association, Board of Directors, Drupal Association, 2015, https://assoc.drupal.org/about/board</ref>, which gives me tremendous insights into how large FOSS projects work both in the community and the enterprise.

== Experience ==

== Experience ==

== Projects==

== Projects==

I have worked with OLPC and Sugar since June 2007. I started off as a volunteer with a OLPC XO-1 from OLPC Headquarters in Cambridge, MA. Next, I put together OLPC San Francisco in January 2008 [8]. Since then, we meet every month at San Francisco State University's campus. We have also hosted the annual OLPC San Francisco Community Summit from 2009 to 2015 [9].  

I have worked with OLPC and Sugar since June 2007. I started off as a volunteer with a OLPC XO-1 from OLPC Headquarters in Cambridge, MA. Next, I put together OLPC San Francisco in January 2008<ref>Sameer Verma, Welcome!, 2008, http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/2008-January/000000.html</ref>. Since then, we meet every month at San Francisco State University's campus. We have also hosted the annual OLPC San Francisco Community Summit from 2009 to 2015<ref>OLPC San Francisco, OLPC SF Community Summit Archive, 2009, http://www.olpcsf.org/archive</ref>.  

I started and currently help manage four school projects with OLPC/Sugar in Jamaica [10]. These are managed by the Center of Excellence, University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica, where I am a founding academic partner [11].  

I started and currently help manage four school projects with OLPC/Sugar in Jamaica<ref>Center of Excellence, UWI Mona, OLPC Jamaica, 2008, http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/</ref>. These are managed by the Center of Excellence, University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica, where I am a founding academic partner<ref>Center of Excellence, UWI Mona, OLPC Jamaica, 2008, http://coe-msb.org/about</ref>.  

I also started and currently manage a OLPC/Sugar project in Bhagmalpur [12], a small village in north India (my mother's village), where we use a model of “One Laptop per Household”. The youngest child of school-going age becomes the owner. In this project, we bypass the local school completely. There is no traditional teacher. The children have their own ad-hoc learning support structure. They actively learn from each other.

I also started and currently manage a OLPC/Sugar project in Bhagmalpur<ref>Sameer Verma, Anish Mangal, OLPC Bhagmalpur, 2008, https://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com/</ref>, a small village in north India (my mother's village), where we use a model of “One Laptop per Household”. The youngest child of school-going age becomes the owner. In this project, we bypass the local school completely. There is no traditional teacher. The children have their own ad-hoc learning support structure. They actively learn from each other.

I have worked on several other OLPC/Sugar projects in varying capacities in Madagascar [13], Tuva [14], Pakistan [15], India [16] among others.  

I have worked on several other OLPC/Sugar projects in varying capacities in Madagascar<ref>June Kleider, Isabella Kleider, OLPC Deployment Maroantsetra, Madagascar, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N10T_RRFWG0</ref>, Tuva<ref>Sameer Verma, Stacey Borsody, OLPC Tuva, 2011, https://olpctuva.wordpress.com/</ref>, Pakistan<ref>Giulia D'Amico, A successful Contributors Program project: Rehnuma School in Karachi, 2011, http://blog.laptop.org/2011/12/21/a-very-successful-contributors-program-project-rehnuma-school-in-karachi/</ref>, India<ref>Salil Konkar, XS Learning with Sameer Verma, 2013, https://monsoongrey.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/xs-learning-with-sameer-verma/</ref> among others.  

My newest project is an effort that began in Jamaica, where we analyzed Sugar Journal data for useful information [17]. We relied on the model from ParaguayEduca [18], and then went on to build our own. I created the architecture for what eventually became XOVis, a visualization system for Sugar Journal data across a classroom, school, or a education district or Ministry [19]. The application was developed by Martin Dluhos [20] and is currently being extended by Andreas Gros [21].  

My newest project is an effort that began in Jamaica, where we analyzed Sugar Journal data for useful information<ref>Sameer Verma, Peering into Journal data, 2013, http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/blog/peering-journal-data</ref>. We relied on the model from ParaguayEduca<ref>Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés, get-journal-stats, 2010, http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-May/010847.html</ref>, and then went on to build our own. I created the architecture for what eventually became XOVis, a visualization system for Sugar Journal data across a classroom, school, or a education district or Ministry<ref>Sameer Verma, XOVis - Analytics and Visualization for Sugar and OLPC, 2014, http://www.slideshare.net/sverma/xovis-analyticsvisualizationsugarolpc-36184541</ref>. The application was developed by Martin Dluhos<ref>Martin Dluhos, GitHub account for martasd, 2014, https://github.com/martasd</ref> and is currently being extended by Andreas Gros<ref>Andreas Gros, GitHub account for Andreas Gros, 2014, https://github.com/andi-g</ref>.

== Expected Contribution ==

== Expected Contribution ==

== References ==

== References ==

1: San Francisco State University, Sameer Verma, Ph.D., 2015, https://faculty.sfsu.edu/~sverma/

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