[Patternfly] NCDevCon

[Robb Hamilton]

On May 22, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robb Hamilton" <rhamilto at redhat.com>
>> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
>> Cc: patternfly at redhat.com, "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:11:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Patternfly] NCDevCon
>> 
>> 
>> On May 22, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Someone from PatternFly might be interested in presenting it at NCDevCon.
>>> http://www.ncdevcon.com/extensions/callforspeakers/SessionForm.cfm
>>> 
>>> If no one else is local to Raleigh, I volunteer.
>> 
>> thanks, greg!
>> 
>> is this something you’d like to co-present on?
> 
> Sure. Are you in Raleigh? For some reason I thought you were in Boston.

yeah, i’m in raleigh.  there are three (soon to be four) UXD-ers here.  :)

> 
>> i think there is a fair amount of work to do around articulating the value
>> proposition of patternfly so it doesn’t come across as simply a promotional
>> thing as there are hundreds of bootstrap-based themes available (e.g., what
>> makes patternfly unique?).  
> 
> Agree.
> 
>> after all, patternfly is a response to a very
>> specific business need within red hat.  maybe that’s the angle?  using
>> Bootstrap to create a standard UI?  additionally, perhaps we can take the
>> perspectives of upstream maintainer (me) vs downstream consumer (you) and
>> how we’re able to forge consistency across Red Hat products by employing
>> PatternFly?  what do you think?
>> 
>> 
> Hm. Tough call. I think both.
> 
> I'm also probably going to submit a talk about using Bootstrap with GWT. It'll let me show off oVirt a little :)

cool.  when is a good time to discuss the proposal in greater detail?