Open format caucus resolution
So I attended my party's local caucus for the first time tonight, and in addition to concluding that our process is highly wacky and inefficient (and not making nearly enough use of electronic resources). However, in addition to that made use of the form provided on the back of our agendas for the purpose of submitting resolutions. I drafted one supporting the mandation of open standards for the file formats of government documents, such as is already law in Massachussetts, which was passed by my precinct (Minnesota's SD54P3). Apparently from there the stack of ours get handed off through other levels of review which aren't completely clear to me, but it's a start at least towards getting more official platform support for it. (Legislation was actually proposed in 2006, but was ignored, and in 2007 a totally crippled rewording of it was brought forth, which would be useless even if they had bothered to pass it.)
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Legislative Action Network
In addition to caucus resolutions and other grass roots activities, which are fabulous another good way to raise awareness about OpenSource at the state legislature level might be to create or utilize some sort of online Legislative Action Network (LAN) website where people can go, find out who their state senator and representative is and then just click to send them a pre written e-mail. The legislators do realize they're all getting the same e-mail, but if enough people send them then most of the senators and reps do have to think about the issue and respond. I'm not sure if there's a site that something like the Ubuntu Minnesota Team could register with, particularly one that is open source and free, or how difficult it would be to set one up but it might be something to think about.