OpenStack Essex Design Summit

Openstack - Satellite would be an area for projects that are not in the core of OpenStack (i.e., Nova, Swift, Glance, etc). It would be a "satellite" area for projects, deployment utilities, code snippets, and configuration files. The satellite would offer support for core components and act as a common repository that would be easily searchable as the satellite projects will be centralized in one area. This could in turn cut down on the possible duplication of effort. Another benefit would be the language independence of projects in the satellite area. The OpenStack - Satellite would be language independent in order to maximize the breadth of contributors. Openstack - Satellite could open a whole new dimension in contributions to the community from Rackspace and others. Openstack - Satellite is not a place for core OpenStack development or extensions of core OpenStack development. Some examples could be: 1) Secure CDN 2) Logging 3) Usage Services 4) Billing Services 5) Incident Services 6) Crowbar