diff --git a/snapcraft.yaml b/snapcraft.yaml
index 80f7aab..372109c 100644
--- a/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 name: glance
 version: ocata
 summary: OpenStack Image Service (glance)
-description: OpenStack Image Service (glance)
+description: |
+  Glance is a project that provides services and associated libraries
+  to store, browse, share, distribute and manage bootable disk images,
+  other data closely associated with initializing compute resources,
+  and metadata definitions.
 confinement: strict
 grade: devel