Credits
Team
Project & technical coordination: Riccardo Bagnato (VITA), Natalino Picone (ANTS S.r.l.)
Grafic design: Gianfranco Pooli (VITA)
xHtml and Css: Remy Sharp (Left Logic)
Web development: ANTS S.r.l.
Technology partner

Specialised in web 2.0 solutions, especially those required by the editorial field, Ants uses progressive technology to integrate editorial systems with the web ensuring their clients a lasting investment. (www.ants.eu).
Technology

Apache is the most used modular, open source Web server platform and works with Unix-Linux and Microsoft operating systems. Developed and maintained by the Apache Foundation . (www.apache.org)

PHP is a computer scripting language, with an open source license, originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. Used mainly to develop server side applications. It can also been used for command line interfacing and standalone graphical applications. (www.php.net)

Created in 2005, Cake PHP is one of the largest and most popular open source web application frameworks. Written in PHP and inspired by Ruby on Rails, it uses the Model-View-Controller design pattern. (http://cakephp.org)

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) available for both Unix systems like GNU/Linux and Windows, even though its use in Unix is more common. (www-it.mysql.com)

Debian GNU/Linux, created by Debian Project, is a widely used GNU/Linux operating system and has been developed with the help of volunteers from across the world. This operating system is exclusively composed by free software. (www.debian.org)

Word Press is a blog platform, written in PHP, created by Matt Mullenweg. Currently it is distributed with the GNU General Public license and can be downloaded for free . (http://wordpress.org)
The website
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months): 4.13
Commits: 4.126
Updated on 7th Jan 2010
VITA SpA
The Group is made up of:
- Società editoriale VITA SpA
- Vita Consulting Scarl
- Fondazione Vita
- Giano Comunicazione Srl
President and founder of the group: Riccardo Bonacina.
VITA provides a regular and reliable news service to Italy and Europe’s non profit world through the following main products and services:
- VITA weekly magazine (120 thousand readers)
- VITA.it website (350 thousand visitors a month)
- VITA europe website (3 thousand visitors a month)
- Books, dossier’s and ad hoc publications
- Video and radio
VITA also offers consulting services to companies, non profit organisations and public institutions in matters of corporate social responsibility (Csr) and fundraising through the professional services of Vita Consulting. There is more: communication and marketing advice are also provided by Giano Communicazione.