04-finals.tex
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\section{Final remarks}
A Brazilian Public Software has some differences from of an Open Source
Software, in particular the software is considered a public good and the
Government assumes some responsibilities related to the use of this kind of
software. From the software development point of view, the principles are the
same: trend towards decentralization in decision-making, information and
development sharing, and feedback. Therefore, we have designed a platform based
on the integration and evolution of existing OSS tools. Nowadays, the SPB Portal
provides several modern features for the collaborative software development.
The new SPB platform was launched for approval in December 2014 and is
available at softwarepublico.gov.br. All the integrated tools are free software
and all of them were developed by UnB and USP teams and are published in open
repositories, available on the SPB Portal itself. An important aspect is that
the necessary improvements in the tools were provided and these returned to the
respective communities. This is not only the right thing to do from the point
of view of the free software community, but also it has reduced the costs of
maintenance, which allowed us to carry out the continued evolution of the
platform in synergy with other organizations that use the same tools.
Providing a set of tools and improving the user experience in the environment
is part of the SPB reformulation process. Cultural aspects of network
collaboration for an effective use of what is provided on the platform need to
be matured by the MP conjointly with the communities of the SPB and even among
the government entities themselves. In addition, the demand for greater impact
of public software in the software supply in the adoption the solutions, as
well as the attraction of employees and collaborators, required a broad
redefinition of the user experience. Finally, a study for licensing proposals
and their impacts on the SPB, also in order to solve the contradictions present
in the Normative Instruction MP/SLTI 01/2011 (which states about SPB
procedures) was conducted by UnB as a complement to what has been developed
from the technological point of view.