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Authored by Melissa Wen
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[opensym] Draft the conclusion section and fix some parts of introduction

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opensym2017/content/01-introduction.tex
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1 1 \section{Introduction}
2 2 \label{sec:intro}
3 3  
4   -During the last few decades, the Brazilian Federal Government has been
5   -trying to change its software adoption and development processes. For
  4 +The Brazilian Federal Government has been
  5 +improving its software adoption and development processes. For
6 6 instance, in 2003, the recommendation to adopt Free and Open Source
7 7 Software (FOSS) become a public policy. In 2007, the Brazilian
8 8 Government released a portal named Brazilian Public Software
... ... @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ amount of technical debt to overcome. The system was a modified version
34 34 of an existing FOSS platform called
35 35 OpenACS\footnote{\url{http://openacs.org}}, and the old SPB portal was
36 36 not being updated anymore against the official OpenACS releases. In this
37   -scenario, the portal maintenance was becoming harder and harder.
  37 +scenario, the portal maintenance has become increasingly difficult.
38 38  
39 39 After some events and meetings to collect requirements from the federal
40 40 government and from the society, a new platform for the SPB Portal was
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62 62 communities. The professors and all undergraduate student were from UnB, and
63 63 the master students were from USP. Regarding the designers and senior
64 64 developers, 7 of 8 they were living outside of Brasília: Curitiba/Brazil, São
65   -Paulo/Brazil, Ribeirão Preto/Brazil, Salvador/Brazil, Punta Cana/Dominican
  65 +Paulo/Brazil, Ribeirão Preto/Brazil, Salvador/Brazil, Santo Domingo/Dominican
66 66 Republic, and Montreal/Canada. In other words, we had a team working in
67 67 distributed collaborative virtual environment.
68 68  
... ... @@ -77,16 +77,13 @@ September 2015. Finally, the last version illustrated in Figure 1 was
77 77 released in June 2016.
78 78  
79 79 In this paper, we present an overview of this new generation of the SPB
80   -Portal. This experience report shares our methodology and process to
81   -develop this project working with the Brazilian federal government to
82   -comply with its requirements at the same time to be as faithful as
83   -possible to FOSS development. Moreover, we discuss several lessons
84   -learned to provide a distributed collaborative virtual environment
85   -involving a large undergraduate student team and remote senior
86   -developers. Lastly, we released an unprecedented platform for the
87   -Brazilian government applying empirical software development methods.
88   -This case can help other projects overcome similar software engineering
89   -challenges in the future, as well as illustrate how universities can
90   -improve the real-world experience of their students by means of this
91   -kind of project.
92   -
  80 +Portal. The paper shares the methodology employed to develop this project,
  81 +in partnership with the Brazilian Federal Government, to comply with its
  82 +requirements at the same time to be as faithful as possible to FOSS development.
  83 +Moreover, we discuss several lessons learned to provide a distributed
  84 +collaborative virtual environment involving a large undergraduate student team
  85 +and remote senior developers. Lastly, we released an unprecedented platform for
  86 +the Brazilian government applying empirical software development methods. This
  87 +case can help other projects to overcome similar software engineering challenges
  88 +in the future, as well as to illustrate how universities can improve the
  89 +real-world experience of their students by means of this kind of project.
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  1 +\section{Conclusion}
  2 +\label{sec:conclusion}
  3 +
  4 +This project resulted in an important case to prove that it is possible to
  5 +conciliate studies and professional training in universities, as long as the
  6 +institution can provide a healthy and challenging environment to its students.
  7 +After the end of the project, some students successfully embraced opportunities
  8 +in public and private sectos, within national borders and abroad. Some others
  9 +went further and started their own companies.
  10 +
  11 +With some adaptations/"translation processes" it is possible to conciliate
  12 +agile methodologies and FOSS practices to develop software to governmental
  13 +organizations with functional hierarchical structures that use traditional
  14 +development paradigm.
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opensym2017/spb.tex
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159 159 \input{content/07-process}
160 160 \input{content/08-contributions}
161 161 \input{content/09-lessons}
  162 +\input{content/10-conclusion}
162 163  
163 164 %------------------------------------------------------------------------------
164 165 \bibliographystyle{SIGCHI-Reference-Format}
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