Political Reform Platform - Non-governmental Institution
Trade Name:
Political Reform Platform
Segment:
Non-governmental Institution
About the Client:
The Political Reform Platform is a group of organizations / networks / forums and movements who gathered for the purpose of struggling for reform of the political system by popular initiative, based on strategies like public discussions and mobilizing society to debate and focus on the debate in the National Congress, even to dispute the concept of what is meant by political reform, such as when Congress in 2007, caused the creation of the Parliamentary Front for Political Reform with Popular Participation. This front has been innovative in their coordination of not only parliamentarians, but also civil society organizations.
Case:
Cálix was contracted by Political Reform Platform to perform the version update of CMS (Content Management System) and to perform the migration of the entire electronic platform (website and email accounts) to a new data center with new network servers.
The Political Reform Platform operates fully electronically through its website (http://www.reformapolitica.org.br) and pages on major social networks, which are used in relationship with the general population and spreading the struggle for People's Initiative for Political Reform.
Tools and Technologies Applied:
Joomla!®: Content Management System (CMS), open source (distributed under GNU/GPL license) and developed with PHP. It's used to develop online stores, blogs, online magazines, content portals, newspapers, catalogs / services and various other formats of content.
Apache® Web Server: Currently the most successful free web server. It was created in 1995 by Rob McCool at the time was an employee of the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications). In a survey conducted in May 2010, Apache served approximately 54.68% of all websites and over 66% of the million busiest websites. It is the core technology of the Apache Software Foundation, responsible for over a dozen projects involving transmission through web technologies, data processing and execution of distributed applications.
PHP®: Free interpreted programming language, created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 and maintained by an organization called The PHP Group. It is free software licensed under the PHP License, and widely used today for developing web applications. Facebook® is a great example of an application developed with this programming language.
MySQL®: Database Management System (DBMS) that uses SQL (Structured Query Language) as the interface. MySQL is one of the most popular data bases today, with over 10 million installations worldwide. Among users of the MySQL database include: NASA, Friendster, Banco Bradesco, Dataprev, HP, Nokia, Sony, Lufthansa, US Army, US Federal Reserve Bank, Associated Press, Alcatel, Slashdot, Cisco Systems, Google, and others.
Web Services: Technological solution used widely for system integration and for communication between different applications, making it possible for new applications to interact with legacy systems developed on different platforms, since it can send and receive data between them.