A couple years ago I ran a website called macsnaps.com. We shut it down planning to rebuild from scratch but the development took another direction and it ended up getting developed into a private gallery application (rather than a community website).
We are calling it Snaps. It doesn't really have a complete website yet (just a trac page), but you can find it here. I'd recommend using the svn version.
Its pretty nifty already. Not as feature rich as something like Gallery 2.0, but it was just released and its open source so hopefully it will develop a community who will fill in the gaps.
It already has some neat features. One that I think has a lot of promise is the ability to use rmagick in your themes. rmagick lets you do effects like the glossy reflection on the default theme. So you could have a theme that puts frames on every thumbnail, tilt the images a random angle so the look askew, put images in the corners (like pins, tap, staples, corner holders), and so on. You could share your themes or just your scripts and mix and match pretty easily. The slideshow feature is pretty nice too.
Mostly at this point we want some feedback, so take it for a spin. Its a rails application so you will need a web host with ruby on rails. And as I mentioned it uses rmagick so you need the rmagick gem installed too. The install shouldn't be different from other rails app installs. But let me know if you need help and I'll see what I can do.
I submitted it to digg but it hasn't gotten much attention (maybe you can help with that):
http://digg.com/software/Snaps_A_New_Open_Source_Web_Gallery_Application
We are calling it Snaps. It doesn't really have a complete website yet (just a trac page), but you can find it here. I'd recommend using the svn version.
Its pretty nifty already. Not as feature rich as something like Gallery 2.0, but it was just released and its open source so hopefully it will develop a community who will fill in the gaps.
It already has some neat features. One that I think has a lot of promise is the ability to use rmagick in your themes. rmagick lets you do effects like the glossy reflection on the default theme. So you could have a theme that puts frames on every thumbnail, tilt the images a random angle so the look askew, put images in the corners (like pins, tap, staples, corner holders), and so on. You could share your themes or just your scripts and mix and match pretty easily. The slideshow feature is pretty nice too.
Mostly at this point we want some feedback, so take it for a spin. Its a rails application so you will need a web host with ruby on rails. And as I mentioned it uses rmagick so you need the rmagick gem installed too. The install shouldn't be different from other rails app installs. But let me know if you need help and I'll see what I can do.
I submitted it to digg but it hasn't gotten much attention (maybe you can help with that):
http://digg.com/software/Snaps_A_New_Open_Source_Web_Gallery_Application