(Gregory Heller of NY State Senate Minority Leaders office, Bob LeLievre of Lelievre
Information Services, Raj Singh of MIT Dept. of Urban Studies & Planning)

As open source tools are maturing, voter registration and mobilization
organizations with no in-house technical staff are beginning to reap the benefits.
Low cost technology solutions are now becoming available to advance your
(electoral or advocacy) campaign’s goals. Gregory Heller will moderate a discussion
on these tools including AdvoKit, an open source Contact Management
application developed through a collaboration in 2004 of progressive web
technologists, political activists, and funders. Bob LeLievre will discuss his work
with VBase, a voter contact management application, and Raj Singh will discuss
advances in open source Geographic Information Systems (Mapping).




Here are some resources mentioned during the session:
http://www.civicactions.com
http://www.advokit.net
http://www.gregoryheller.com

Raj Singh
http://web.mit.edu/rajsingh/www/projects/opensourcegis.html