From 613c980ce78c48aeee62a5fe283e53b1e7b1f32b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Melissa Wen Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:01:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Review of conclusion text --- opensym2017/content/12-conclusion.tex | 36 +++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/opensym2017/content/12-conclusion.tex b/opensym2017/content/12-conclusion.tex index f6ee382..6e8570d 100644 --- a/opensym2017/content/12-conclusion.tex +++ b/opensym2017/content/12-conclusion.tex @@ -5,34 +5,32 @@ 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 unprecedent platform, delivered to Brazilian government. This -platform - developed by an heterogenous team of professors, master and +The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we present how an unprecedent +platform was developed and delivered to Brazilian government. This +platform - developed by an heterogenous team of professors, masters 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 +Second, the thirty-month long project in which the SPB platform was developed points +out that it is possible to mitigate issues seen as conflicting to the IT +development environment and between industry and academy. The team was engaged in +providing a friendly working environment as well as in showing to governmental agents +another way to interact with the FLOSS community and the university. In the paper, +we try to show that, as long as the institution can provide a healthy and challenging +environment to its students, one may 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 +We also demonstrate that, with some adaptations/"translation processes", it is feasible +to conciliate agile methodologies and FOSS practices in order to develop software to governmental organizations with functional hierarchical structures that use traditional development paradigm. -In the SPB project it was employed many of our beliefs about FLOSS and Agile -practices. The team was engaged in creating a friendly environment for everyone -involved in the project and in showing to government agents another way to -interact with the FLOSS community and the university. With an open work style, -the project has seeked to be transparent for the whole society. We belive it is -still needed to analyze every data produced by the project and its impact on the -students. For future work, we would conduce a \textit{post-mortem} analyse in the -project, seeing that we have many open data to be explored and it was applied -approachs which still need extra validation. +Future work should use the many data produced by the project to validate and evaluate +how the used FLOSS and Agile practices have impacted the students and also the +governmental development process. For this, we would conduce a \textit{post-mortem} +analyse using the project open data and a survey targeted the involved actors. + The portal is available at \url{softwarepublico.gov.br}. All documentation, including detailed architecture and operation manuals are -- libgit2 0.21.2