Software Público Brasileiro

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

Since last few decades, the Brazilian Federal Government has been improving its
software adoption and development processes. In 2003, the recommendation to
adopt Open Source Software (OSS) become a public policy. In 2007, the Brazilian
Government released a Portal to share projects like OSS called Brazilian Public
Software (\textit{Software Público Brasileiro} -- SPB). In short, it is a
website to share softwares developed by and for the Brazilian Government.

On the one hand, the Brazilian legal instrument on software contracting
(\textit{Instrução Normativa} 04/2012) indicates that public managers must
consult the SPB Portal to adopt a software solution, as well as, justifying the
acquisition of a proprietary software if there is no a similar project
available in the SPB Portal. On the other hand, since 2009, the SPB Portal had
several technical problems because there was no development activities to
maintenance and evolve it. Thus, the initial SPB Portal version did not have
another release.

From January 2014 until June 2016, a platform for the SPB Portal was designed
and developed by the University of Brasília (UnB) and the University of São
Paulo (USP).  This new Portal was designed to be an integrated platform of
software collaborative development environments with social networking, mailing
list, control version system, and source code quality monitoring. In this
paper, we present this new generation of the SPB Portal.