Sam lives in Cambridge, and has experience in organizing multilingual communities around learning, and in working around the world. He previously served as OLPC's Director of Content from 2006-2008. He has worked on software planning, database design, and management of global education projects, including a collaborative multilingual dictionary, a translation software startup (later acquired by SDL), and an online school for computer science. Sam has developed various Wikipedia projects since 2004, and serves on the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation. He is an affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he has run conferences about technology and collaboration.