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With the development of Gallery 3 well underway and in constant evolvement I'm thinking quite a lot about Photo Gallery theme development. I have some ideas about what I would like to do in a Gallery 3 theme, but nothing is decided as I have yet to sit down and actually try to design a mockup or anything.

So far it seems like the javascript library of choice in Gallery 3 will be jQuery which should make things a fair bit easier for me to work with. Also, the abundance of plugins available for jQuery is certain to help me out with adding some nice little effects to the final theme.

I'm looking forward to theming Gallery 3 as the theme system matures, so far it's looking very good and the current incarnation should make it fairly easy to get started with Gallery 3 theming. Hopefully this means that we will see a lot of great themes produced in the time ahead!

For now though, I would like to ask for inspiration. Do you know of a great photo gallery theme that you would like to show me? It doesn't have to be css/html only, flash based sites work for inspiration as well even if my theme most certainly won't be flash based at all.

So, what do you say? Want to help me find inspiration for a great Gallery 3 theme?

Did you know that currently there are thirteen publicly available themes ready for download and usage for your Habari install? Some of the themes that are available are ported from other blogging platforms, others are "pure" Habari themes that doesn't originate anywhere else.

Head over to the available themes section on habariproject.org and have a look at what is available to you as a Habari user.

In other Habari news, the project has recently announced  "Habari Summer of Collaboration". While Habari as a project can't sponsor full time internship and payment for your open source work like Google can, we still want to use the summer to improve the project as much as we can.

So, if you do have some time available we would love to see you help us make Habari a better product. Whether you have a personal itch to scratch or just want to feel the warm fuzziness of contributing to a open source project, you are sure to receive a warm welcome from the Habari community.