Lisa Nyman Discusses Open Source in Government

by Sam Williams , author of Free as in Freedom 07/15/2002 Lisa Nyman is a senior Internet technologist with the U.S. Census Bureau. She is one of the co-creators of QuickFacts , a user-friendly feature on the Census Bureau's Web Page, which lets visitors track down county, state, and national census data using a single pulldown menu. Launched in 2000, QuickFacts uses Perl scripts, Apache Web servers, and a MySQL database to deliver increased interactivity on the "www.census.gov site at...n

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