Announcing CiviCluster and CiviConference

I've created initial snapshots for CiviCluster and CiviConference for
users of Drupal 5. It may take up to 24 hours for them to appear in the
Drupal.org release system, but they are already in the DRUPAL-5 CVS branch.

CiviCluster will rapidly identify duplicate contacts and walk users
though merging them. CiviCluster supports CiviCRM 1.6 and 1.7 (except
for CiviEvent). CiviCluster will be updated shortly to support CiviEvent
schema changes.

http://drupal.org/project/civicluster

CiviConference allows online conference management and ticket sales by
integrating CiviEvent and Drupal's eCommerce module. CiviConference
requires CiviCRM 1.7 and the CiviEvent component.

http://drupal.org/project/civiconference

People interested in data mining and high performance will be interested in the high-performance local clustering algorithms used for CiviCluster.

David Strauss
Four Kitchen Studios