diff --git a/_includes/nav_header.html b/_includes/nav_header.html
index 7ca1883..498cda3 100644
--- a/_includes/nav_header.html
+++ b/_includes/nav_header.html
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="{{ site.url }}dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="{{ site.url }}pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="{{ site.url }}site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="{{ site.url }}extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/content/about.html b/content/about.html
index fcd55ef..1d48a19 100644
--- a/content/about.html
+++ b/content/about.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/content/community.html b/content/community.html
index d4e0b8a..7735f6c 100644
--- a/content/community.html
+++ b/content/community.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/content/dev-setup.html b/content/dev-setup.html
index d252ee6..da9f7d3 100644
--- a/content/dev-setup.html
+++ b/content/dev-setup.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/content/download.html b/content/download.html
index bf2505e..5ac25b6 100644
--- a/content/download.html
+++ b/content/download.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/content/extension.html b/content/extension.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..900d037
--- /dev/null
+++ b/content/extension.html
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+  <head>
+    <meta charset="utf-8">
+    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+    <!-- The above 3 meta tags *must* come first in the head; any other head content must come *after* these tags -->
+    <meta name="description" content="">
+    <meta name="author" content="">
+    <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico">
+
+    <title>AsterixDB Extensions</title>
+
+    <!-- Bootstrap core CSS -->
+    <link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
+    <!-- Bootstrap theme -->
+
+    <!-- Custom styles for this template -->
+    <link href="css/theme.css" rel="stylesheet">
+
+    <!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js for IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
+    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
+      <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js"></script>
+      <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
+    <![endif]-->
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
+  </head>
+
+  <div class="container theme-showcase" role="main">
+          <div class="masthead">
+        <p class="lead">
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+             <img src="img/asterixdb_tm.png" style="height:75px; width:auto; vertical-align:bottom; margin-top:10px;"/>
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+        </p>
+      </div>
+
+      <nav class="navbar navbar-default">
+        <div class="container">
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+            </button>
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+          <div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
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+                <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
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+                </ul>
+              </li>
+              <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
+              <li class="dropdown">
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Community<span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
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+                  <li><a href="community.html#irc">IRC</a></li>
+                  <li><a href="community.html#asterixdb-team">Team</a></li>
+                  <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB">Issue Tracker</a></li>
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+              </li>
+              <li class="dropdown">
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+                <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
+                  <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
+                  <li class="divider"></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
+                  <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
+                  <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
+                </ul>
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+            </ul>
+            <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
+              <li class="dropdown">
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+                  <li><a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html">Thanks</a></li>
+                  <li><a href="http://www.apache.org/security/">Security</a></li>
+                </ul>
+              </li>
+            </ul>
+          </div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
+        </div>
+      </nav>
+
+
+    <div class="row">
+<div class="col-md-8 col-centered">
+<h2>AsterixDB Extensions</h2>
+<ul id="markdown-toc">
+  <li><a href="#integrating-with-asterixdb-build" id="markdown-toc-integrating-with-asterixdb-build">Integrating with AsterixDB Build</a>    <ul>
+      <li><a href="#bill-of-materials-maven-module" id="markdown-toc-bill-of-materials-maven-module">Bill of Materials Maven Module</a></li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h2 id="integrating-with-asterixdb-build">Integrating with AsterixDB Build</h2>
+
+<p>Extensions can be built as part of the AsterixDB + Hyracks build by adding a module in ‘asterixdb/asterix-opt’  The
+ presence of a pom.xml in this directory adds this to the maven reactor as a sub-module of asterixdb.</p>
+
+<h3 id="bill-of-materials-maven-module">Bill of Materials Maven Module</h3>
+
+<p>A Bill of Materials (i.e. BOM) must be provided to indicate which (if any) jars &amp; dependencies should be included in
+ the AsterixDB (e.g. asterix-server, asterix-installer, etc.) binary assemblies.  Typically, the maven module defined
+ in asterixdb/asterix-opt will have a BOM project as a sub-module.</p>
+
+<p>This BOM must have the following coordinates, as this is used as the linkage into the asterix-server binary-assembly:
+<code>org.apache.asterix:asterix-opt-bom:0.8.9-SNAPSHOT:pom</code> (<em>version must match AsterixDB project version</em>)</p>
+
+<p>Any dependencies specified in the BOM (as well as transitive dependencies) will be included in the AsterixDB binary
+  assemblies.  If no jars are desired to be included in the AsterixDB binary assemblies, the BOM need not specify any
+  dependencies.</p>
+
+<h4 id="example-bom">Example BOM</h4>
+
+<pre><code>    &lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+            xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"&gt;
+
+      &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
+
+      &lt;!-- project coordinates --&gt;
+      &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.asterix&lt;/groupId&gt;
+      &lt;artifactId&gt;asterix-opt-bom&lt;/artifactId&gt;
+      &lt;version&gt;0.8.9-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
+      &lt;name&gt;psu-nittany-bom&lt;/name&gt;
+      &lt;description&gt;Penn State Nittany Lion Seach Extension to AsterixDB&lt;/description&gt;
+
+      &lt;!-- any dependencies listed here will be included in asterix-server, etc. binary assemblies --&gt;
+      &lt;dependencies&gt;
+          &lt;dependency&gt;
+          &lt;groupId&gt;edu.psu.cs&lt;/groupId&gt;
+          &lt;artifactId&gt;nittany-search&lt;/artifactId&gt;
+          &lt;version&gt;0.1.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
+          &lt;packaging&gt;pom&lt;/packaging&gt;
+        &lt;/dependency&gt;
+      &lt;/dependencies&gt;
+    &lt;/project&gt;
+</code></pre>
+
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+    <hr/>
+
+    <footer>
+      <div class="row">
+        <div class="col-md-9 col-centered text-center">
+          <p/>
+          <p>&copy; Copyright 2016 The Apache Software foundation. All Rights Reserved. </p>
+          <p>Apache AsterixDB, the Apache AsterixDB logo, Apache, and the Apache feather logo are trademarks of the
+            Apache Software Foundation</p>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </footer>
+  </div> <!-- /container -->
+
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+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/content/index.html b/content/index.html
index 7e5e59c..f9781fd 100644
--- a/content/index.html
+++ b/content/index.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/content/pushing.html b/content/pushing.html
index 8f811b7..3937cac 100644
--- a/content/pushing.html
+++ b/content/pushing.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/content/site.html b/content/site.html
index 73e11bf..db7e4b7 100644
--- a/content/site.html
+++ b/content/site.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/content/tools.html b/content/tools.html
index 1547df8..ff08097 100644
--- a/content/tools.html
+++ b/content/tools.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
                 </ul>
               </li>
               <li class="dropdown">
-                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Contributing <span class="caret"></span></a>
+                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Development<span class="caret"></span></a>
                 <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For New Contributors</li>
                   <li><a href="dev-setup.html">Development Setup</a></li>
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
                   <li class="dropdown-header">For Committers</li>
                   <li><a href="pushing.html">Pushing changes</a></li>
                   <li><a href="site.html">Editing this site</a></li>
+                  <li class="dropdown-header">Extensions</li>
+                  <li><a href="extension.html">Extending AsterixDB</a></li>
                 </ul>
               </li>
             </ul>
diff --git a/extension.md b/extension.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3164b10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extension.md
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+---
+title: AsterixDB Extensions
+---
+
+* TOC
+{:toc}
+
+---
+
+## Integrating with AsterixDB Build
+
+Extensions can be built as part of the AsterixDB + Hyracks build by adding a module in 'asterixdb/asterix-opt'  The
+ presence of a pom.xml in this directory adds this to the maven reactor as a sub-module of asterixdb.
+
+### Bill of Materials Maven Module
+
+A Bill of Materials (i.e. BOM) must be provided to indicate which (if any) jars & dependencies should be included in
+ the AsterixDB (e.g. asterix-server, asterix-installer, etc.) binary assemblies.  Typically, the maven module defined
+ in asterixdb/asterix-opt will have a BOM project as a sub-module.
+
+This BOM must have the following coordinates, as this is used as the linkage into the asterix-server binary-assembly:
+`org.apache.asterix:asterix-opt-bom:0.8.9-SNAPSHOT:pom` (_version must match AsterixDB project version_)
+
+Any dependencies specified in the BOM (as well as transitive dependencies) will be included in the AsterixDB binary
+  assemblies.  If no jars are desired to be included in the AsterixDB binary assemblies, the BOM need not specify any
+  dependencies.
+
+#### Example BOM
+
+```
+    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+            xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+
+      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+      <!-- project coordinates -->
+      <groupId>org.apache.asterix</groupId>
+      <artifactId>asterix-opt-bom</artifactId>
+      <version>0.8.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <name>psu-nittany-bom</name>
+      <description>Penn State Nittany Lion Seach Extension to AsterixDB</description>
+
+      <!-- any dependencies listed here will be included in asterix-server, etc. binary assemblies -->
+      <dependencies>
+          <dependency>
+          <groupId>edu.psu.cs</groupId>
+          <artifactId>nittany-search</artifactId>
+          <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+          <packaging>pom</packaging>
+        </dependency>
+      </dependencies>
+    </project>
+```