LISTEN LIVE to CA State Senator Bowen's Hearing Tomorrow! (Room # changed)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 7, 2006
CONTACT: Jennie Bretschneider
[phone]/[phone]

DOES OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE HAVE A PLACE IN CALIFORNIA’S ELECTORAL SYSTEM?

WHO: Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach), Chairwoman of the Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee

WHAT: The Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committeewill hold a hearing to look at how private companies, as well as state and federal agencies, have begun using “open source software” and where it can or should be used in California’s electoral system.

WHEN: Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8, 2006, at 9:00 a.m.

WHERE: State Capitol, Room 4202 (this is a change from Room 112).

To listen on the web, go to http://www.asm.ca.gov/committee_hearings
and click on “Broadcast Room List,” then click on “Committee Room 4202.”

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1. Kick

Time to end all this "proprietary" BS.

[Wilms]

2. Here's a web TV link. It happening now.

http://www.calchannel.com/MEDIA/encode_4.asx