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 this context, in
2007, the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management had 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 (IN
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 and the University of São Paulo.
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.