Hello Ray,
Short calls and short puts both always have negative gamma, wich is meaningful. Negative gamma means that the delta of long calls will become more negative and move upward when the stock prices rises. It means that the delta of short puts will become more negative.Just as delta changes, so does gamma. If you were to look at a graph of gamma versus the strike prices of the options, it would look like a hill.
Nevertheless if an option is out-of-money, its strike price will be either higher than the current market value, in the case of a call, or lower, in the case of a put.
So if you for instance have an short call position in an out-of-money-option, your gamma will be negative and it will yield a profit. The profit is the optionprice, you've got.
So it should hopefully be made clear.