Development and support for this module has stopped. This module has been replaced with:
The Pages module.
Adds a link next to home to an about page.
The Pages module is better and gives you the ability to add more than one page.
Create a page that you can add text and other html you can edit to tell your users about you or your site.<b/> If the edit_tinymce module is installed you will get a rich text editor to edit the html content.
This module may be downloaded from the codex here.
To install, extract the "about" folder from the zip file into your Gallery 3 modules folder.
Afterwards log into your Gallery web site as an administrator and activate the module in the Admin -> Modules menu.
Configure the module: Settings -> About page. You will be able to add text/html for your page. Save
Similar modules: Gallery3:Modules:about & Gallery3:Modules:Pages
there is also the links module ( the same just renamed ) http://galleryproject.org/node/102172#comment-374843