About us

We're a community of contributors from all around the globe. If you believe in our open source mission, we hope you will join us!

Our Mission

The Piwigo mission is to build the best open source photo manager for the web with a strong focus on user experience over technology.

22

Years old

119

Releases

2,8M

Downloads

282k

Forum messages

599

Extensions

Mobile apps

Piwigo comes as mobile apps for iPhone/iPad and Android.

2011

Piwigo moves to GitHub

Piwigo officialy joins the Github community of coders.

2015
PIWIGO
2010

Piwigo.com is launched

Cloud-hosting, ready-to-use Piwigo for everybody.

2009

PhpWebGallery becomes Piwigo

New name, version 2.0 but same project.

Recruitement

The team gets bigger and coding activity is growing strongly.

2005

Arrivals of Plugins

Major technical and mindset shift. New features and new contributors.

2007
2003

Free.fr

Available on Free.fr with a 1-click install. Will attract many contributors.

2002

Birth

After months of preparation, version 1.0.0 was released.

2015

Piwigo moves to GitHub

Piwigo officialy joins the Github community of coders.

2011

Mobile apps

Piwigo comes as mobile apps for iPhone/iPad and Android.

2010

Piwigo.com is launched

Cloud-hosting, ready-to-use Piwigo for everybody.

2009

PhpWebGallery becomes Piwigo

New name, version 2.0 but same project.

2007

Arrivals of Plugins

Major technical and mindset shift. New features and new contributors.

2005

Recruitement

The team gets bigger and coding activity is growing strongly.

2003

Free.fr

Available on Free.fr with a 1-click install. Will attract many contributors.

2002

Birth

After months of preparation, version 1.0.0 was released.

Business Model

Although animated by a largely volunteer community of contributors, a project like Piwigo is not free to run: web servers, domain names, development time or website management. How is the project viable at money level?

Donations

The Piwigo Association collects donations from its community of users. This money is used to pay direct fees such as web servers hosting, domain names or mobile application store subscriptions. Your financial contribution would mark your commitment to the project.

Piwigo.com

Profits generated make it possible to spend some time on Piwigo. For example Pierrick, creator of Piwigo and now paid thanks to Piwigo.com, can work on Piwigo.org. The two projects thus maintain a virtuous circle: the success of one leads to the success of the other, and vice versa.

Services

Some coders and theme creators are paid by customers to create new features. Most of the time, these creations are also available to the Piwigo community as a whole.

Want to be part of the adventure?

The Piwigo project needs various skills, such as coders, designers, documentation writers, helpers. If you believe in our mission, be part of it :-)

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