[opensym] Draft the conclusion section and fix some parts of introduction

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opensym2017/content/01-introduction.tex
opensym2017/content/10-conclusion.tex
opensym2017/spb.tex
 \section{Introduction}
 \label{sec:intro}
-During the last few decades, the Brazilian Federal Government has been
-trying to change its software adoption and development processes. For
+The Brazilian Federal Government has been 
+improving its software adoption and development processes. For
 instance, in 2003, the recommendation to adopt Free and Open Source
 Software (FOSS) become a public policy. In 2007, the Brazilian
 Government released a portal named Brazilian Public Software
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ amount of technical debt to overcome. The system was a modified version
 of an existing FOSS platform called
 OpenACS\footnote{\url{http://openacs.org}}, and the old SPB portal was
 not being updated anymore against the official OpenACS releases. In this
-scenario, the portal maintenance was becoming harder and harder.
+scenario, the portal maintenance has become increasingly difficult.
 After some events and meetings to collect requirements from the federal
 government and from the society, a new platform for the SPB Portal was
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ with 2 professional designers and 6 senior developers from the FOSS
 communities. The professors and all undergraduate student were from UnB, and
 the master students were from USP. Regarding the designers and senior
 developers, 7 of 8 they were living outside of Brasília: Curitiba/Brazil, São
-Paulo/Brazil, Ribeirão Preto/Brazil, Salvador/Brazil, Punta Cana/Dominican
+Paulo/Brazil, Ribeirão Preto/Brazil, Salvador/Brazil, Santo Domingo/Dominican
 Republic, and Montreal/Canada. In other words, we had a team working in
 distributed collaborative virtual environment.
@@ -77,16 +77,13 @@ September 2015. Finally, the last version illustrated in Figure 1 was
 released in June 2016.
 In this paper, we present an overview of this new generation of the SPB
-Portal.  This experience report shares our methodology and process to
-develop this project working with the Brazilian federal government to
-comply with its requirements at the same time to be as faithful as
-possible to FOSS development. Moreover, we discuss several lessons
-learned to provide a distributed collaborative virtual environment
-involving a large undergraduate student team and remote senior
-developers. Lastly, we released an unprecedented platform for the
-Brazilian government applying empirical software development methods.
-This case can help other projects overcome similar software engineering
-challenges in the future, as well as illustrate how universities can
-improve the real-world experience of their students by means of this
-kind of project.
-
+Portal. The paper shares the methodology employed to develop this project,
+in partnership with the Brazilian Federal Government, to comply with its
+requirements at the same time to be as faithful as possible to FOSS development.
+Moreover, we discuss several lessons learned to provide a distributed
+collaborative virtual environment involving a large undergraduate student team
+and remote senior developers. Lastly, we released an unprecedented platform for
+the Brazilian government applying empirical software development methods. This
+case can help other projects to overcome similar software engineering challenges
+in the future, as well as to illustrate how universities can improve the
+real-world experience of their students by means of this kind of project.
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+\section{Conclusion}
+\label{sec:conclusion}
+
+This project resulted in an important case to prove that it is possible to
+conciliate studies and professional training in universities, as long as the
+institution can provide a healthy and challenging environment to its students.
+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.
+
+With some adaptations/"translation processes" it is possible to conciliate
+agile methodologies and FOSS practices to develop software to governmental
+organizations with functional hierarchical structures that use traditional
+development paradigm.
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@
 \input{content/07-process}
 \input{content/08-contributions}
 \input{content/09-lessons}
+\input{content/10-conclusion}
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 \bibliographystyle{SIGCHI-Reference-Format}
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@		@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
	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.
	@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@		@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@
159	\input{content/07-process}	159	\input{content/07-process}
160	\input{content/08-contributions}	160	\input{content/08-contributions}
161	\input{content/09-lessons}	161	\input{content/09-lessons}
		162	+\input{content/10-conclusion}
162		163
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