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Gallery has participated in the Google Summer of Code for the past three summers. Today, Gallery was written up on the GSoC Program Blog. Congratulations to everyone envolved!

The Sourceforge.net 2007 Community Choice Awards are now accepting nominations and if you are a Gallery user it’s time to step up and put your vote where your photos are. For now, it’s all about nominating the project to make sure it’s included in the final voting round.

You can nominate Gallery on the project page over at sf.net, or via this direct link (Sourceforge login required).

After the nomination phase has been completed, don’t forget to visit http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/ to submit your final vote! Voting begins on July 9th.

The Gallery Project has setup a Planet RSS feed aggregator at planet.gallery2.org. Now you can get all your Gallery related news in one location :)

Gallery 2.2 (Double Double) is now available for download! In what has been close to a year of development, the Gallery team has packed this release full of new features and security enhancements. Major new features include:

• Downloadable Plugins which let you download, install, and upgrade modules and themes through the web interface
• Dynamic Albums which let you set up albums based on keywords, ratings, and more
• WebDAV support for managing your photo library like a network hard drive with folders of images.

I'm finishing up the testing of the Debian package for Gallery 2.2. They'll be uploaded shortly.

For more information, check out the Official Release Announcement and the Press Release.

Google is once again sponsoring the Summer of Code. Gallery is pleased to be one of the accepted organizations and is happy to work along side dozens of other great open source projects. I'm pleased to be a Summer of Code program administrator for Gallery again this year and we've assembled an excellent team of mentors and administrators to work with the students this year. Here's to another excellent Google Summer of Code!

Krissy and I just got back from the second annual Gallery Core Team meetup. It was held in Las Vegas last weekend and we had an amazing time. It was great seeing everyone we met in New York last year as well as several new faces.

We got to Vegas about 11AM on Friday, about the same time as Donald and Mary Ann and Chris. We met up with them in baggage claim then headed over to Disneyland, err the taxi corral, and shared a cab to the Luxor, the official meetup hotel. The Luxor is the big black pyramid at the south end of the Vegas strip. Most of the core team stayed in the pyramid rather than the towers (which are shaped like Mayan pyramids rather than Egyptian pyramids) and thus got to experience slanted walls and inclinators (which move up and down the pyramid at a 38 degree angle) rather than elevators. After getting checked in, we had lunch at the buffet with Donald, Mary Ann, and Chris. After lunch, we called Jesse, who got in early Friday morning and met up with him in the Luxor casino. After gambling for a bit, we went up to Jesse, Jacquie, Jay and Melody's room to hang out. At check-in, a bunch of us got some coupon books that included 2-for-1 drinks at happy hour so the next stop was Happy Hour. We met up with some more of the Gallery team then picked up our new Gallery T-shirts. We headed up the strip to New York, New York for dinner at Nine Fine Irishmen. After dinner, we caught Zumanity, an excellent Cirque du Soleil cabaret show.

On Saturday, we met up with the Gallery team for breakfast. The cafe didn't have a table for all 20+ of us so we ate with Jesse, Jacquie, Jay, and Melody. After breakfast (more of a brunch since we had a late night at NY NY), we went over to the Mandalay Bay for shopping and more gambling. At 2PM, we went to Bharat and Jen's suite for the first in-person team meeting. We have weekly team meetings on IRC but this was the first time almost the entire team was available for an in-person meeting. After several hours of productive discussions, we broke up to get ready for dinner. Dinner was further up the strip at Wolfgang Puck's Postrio at the Venetian. We had a private room, a 4 hour open bar, and an excellent 5 course dinner. After dinner, we gathered for the obligatory group picture, then wandered through several floors of the Venetian parking garage till we found the taxi stand. We headed back to the Mandalay Bay to see the burlesque show at Forty Deuce then hit the casino one last time. Finally, we got an early morning snack with Jay and Melody at the Luxor's Pyramid Cafe.

Krissy and I had a relatively early flight on Sunday so we had to miss the group lunch at the cafe but we did get to say bye to Jesse, Jacquie, Jay, and Melody while checking out. It was another amazing, fun-filled Gallery meetup. Pics are (of course) available in our Gallery.

The Gallery Development Team is incredibly pleased to announce the release of Gallery 2.0! Over three years of design and development have gone into creating the best online photo management product possible. Gallery 2.0 is the natural successor to Gallery 1, and we hope that you like what you see. Don't wait, download Gallery 2 now!

If you haven't seen it before, we've assembled some Gallery 2 screen shots that you can look at, hosted in a version of Gallery 2 that's embedded in this Drupal based website. For other examples of the cool things that you can do with Gallery 2, you can check out just a few of the demo sites that users have created and posted in our forums. Especially check out the highlights to get an idea of what you can do with Gallery 2's powerful theming system.

More information is available on the Gallery website.