Software Público Brasileiro

\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}

In this paper we present and discuss issues experienced during a government-
funded project, in partnership with University of Brasilia and University of
São Paulo, to evolve the Brazilian Public Software portal. 

The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we present how was
developed an unprecedent platform, delivered to Brazilian government. This 
platform -  developed by an heterogenous team of professors, master and 
undergraduate  students, IT professionals and governmental managers - provides 
several modern features from the integration of more than 10 FLOSS systems.

Second, the 30 months project which developed this platform, results in an
important case that it is possible to mitigate issues seen as conflicting to IT
development environment and between industry and academy. We shown that, as
long as the institution can provide a healthy and challenging environment to
its students, its is possible to conciliate studies and professional training
in universities. After the end of the project, some students successfully
embraced opportunities in public and private sectos, within national borders
and abroad. Some others went further and started their own companies.

We also shown that, with some adaptations/"translation processes", was possible
to conciliate agile methodologies and FOSS practices to develop software to 
governmental organizations with functional hierarchical structures that use 
traditional development paradigm.