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 unprecedented platform, delivered to Brazilian government. This
platform -  developed by an heterogeneous 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.

The SPB project represented an opportunity for us to apply many of our belief
related to FLOSS and Agile Method. We put an enormous effort to create a
friendly environment for everybody involved in the project, and for showing to
the government another way to interact with FLOSS community and university. Our
work style was extremely open and we tried to be transparent for the entire
society. As a consequence, we believe that we still need to investigate more
all the data produced by the project and the impacts on the students. We
expected to conduct a post-mortem analyze in the project since we have many
open data and we applied many concepts that still extra validation.