Correio da Cidadania (Citizenship Post) - Communication

Trade Name:

Correio da Cidadania (Citizenship Post)  

Segment:

Communication

About the Client:

Correio da Cidadania was founded in 1996 with the goal of helping to build democratic and independent media. For 18 years, Correio da Cidadania offers critical views of political, economic and social developments, and editorial counterpoint to the uniformity of the mainstream press.
 
Correio da Cidadania is edited by a nonprofit society, called the Society for the Advancement of Democratic Communication. Unlike large newspaper companies, Correio da Cidadania is not supported by money from advertisers and their economic interests. The electronic version of Citizenship Post is completely free.

Case:

Cálix was contracted by Correio da Cidadania 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.
 
Correio da Cidadania operates fully electronically through its website (http://www.correiocidadania.com.br) and pages on major social networks, which are used in the relationships and loyalty of readers.

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.