Meetings, WordPress, and Relationship Stuff
Out meeting for Youth Alliance went well this evening. We got something for all of our grant stuff and how to deal with dispursing money started tonight. There is still more to do, but it should be fairly easy. Since everyone agreed on these actions, we won’t have to worry about disagreeing on anything except for minor details. The process was agreed upon, so that was good. Despite some minor personality conflicts, the meeting wasn’t so bad.
I’m still a little stressed what with all that’s gone on recently. My role in the future of the organization isn’t quite aligned with my personal preferences for how to spend my volunteer itme, but we’re not really at a point where I can do otherwise. I honestly feel like I need to do what’s asked right now, because if we can get things right, Youth Alliance will have the volunteers it needs to do its jobs and the administration focused on what it should be. Furthermore, while my position is not where I would choose to align myself, I will do it because I feel very strongly that what we’re creating for our youth is something very, very important.
I also got volunteered to go see a laywer here really soon to talk about some of our legal non-profit issues concerning what information is filed with the state and how to change it. I’m not really that comfortable going to the lawyer’s office, but Becky says that he’s worked really hard to help the gay community as an ally, so at least those barriers will be gone. Apparently, I’m the most knowledgable about the Iowa Code with respect to non-profits and our own bylaws of the people on the board, so I get to visit with the lawyer. I will survive.
I installed the new WordPress the other day. This release is really nice. It looks like there is a way to do 100% CSS-based layouts with the tags that it generates. I’d really like to do this, but I need to sit down and really examine the example that was provided.
Another thing that I’ve noticed about this release is that there seems to be more RDF-centric. What I mean is that this new version of WordPress seems to generate XML data for just about everything. There are feeds for comments left, RDF embedded within documents, and exporting of about every XML syndication format ever, if requested. It’s exciting to see RDF in use, after the symposium this last fall. It promises to do exactly what the speaker suggested to get RDF in use&emdash;use RDF for what is neat to you, and eventually everyone will follow.
I read a little more on how to write additions to WordPress. Apparently the software uses a filter function for it’s plugins/hacks, which means that I can do a lot of really neat stuff in terms of integration. I still need to sit down and start reading the source code before I can really work on the whole free assocation project.
The talk with Dean on Saturday was mostly sitting down, explaining concerns that I had and listening to his responses, as well as analyzing some of the things that he’s been feeling and his own concerns. He said the next day that he felt way better about things after talking as well, so I’m excited.