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| @@ -22,19 +22,19 @@ agencies suddenly changed that reflected on the project’s requirements: each | @@ -22,19 +22,19 @@ agencies suddenly changed that reflected on the project’s requirements: each | ||
| 22 | new leader wanted to fulfill their political agenda. In this scenario, delivery | 22 | new leader wanted to fulfill their political agenda. In this scenario, delivery |
| 23 | delays could have sunk the project into oblivion. | 23 | delays could have sunk the project into oblivion. |
| 24 | 24 | ||
| 25 | -From 2014 to 2016, our team developed the new platform for the Brazilian Public | ||
| 26 | -Software (SPB, Portuguese acronym) Portal (www.softwarepublico.gov.br) funded | ||
| 27 | -by a grant of 2,619,965.00 BRL (about 1,000,000.00 USD in January 2014) from | ||
| 28 | -the Federal Government. The SPB Portal has evolved to a CDE [1] and this | ||
| 29 | -evolution has brought important benefits not just to the Brazilian government, | ||
| 30 | -but also to society as a whole. For the government, the bureaucracy on using | ||
| 31 | -the same software across government agencies, duplicate works and costs all are | ||
| 32 | -reduced. The society gains a transparency and collaboration mechanism, since | ||
| 33 | -anyone can check the government expenses on software and contribute to the | ||
| 34 | -software communities. To achieve these goals, rather than writing everything | ||
| 35 | -from scratch, we have chosen to integrate free software tools such as Gitlab | ||
| 36 | -(www.gitlab.com), Mailman (www.gnu.org/software/mailman), Noosfero | ||
| 37 | -(www.noosfero.org), and Colab (www.github.com/colab). | 25 | +Our team from the University of Brasília (UnB) and the University of São Paulo |
| 26 | +(USP) developed the new platform for the Brazilian Public Software (SPB, | ||
| 27 | +Portuguese acronym) Portal (www.softwarepublico.gov.br) from 2014 to 2016. The | ||
| 28 | +SPB Portal evolved to a CDE [1] and this evolution brought about important | ||
| 29 | +benefits not just to the Brazilian government, but also to society as a whole. | ||
| 30 | +For the government, the bureaucracy on using the same software across | ||
| 31 | +government agencies, duplicate works, and costs all were reduced. The society | ||
| 32 | +gained a transparency and collaboration mechanism, since anyone can check the | ||
| 33 | +government expenses on software and contribute to the software communities. To | ||
| 34 | +achieve these goals, rather than writing everything from scratch, we decided to | ||
| 35 | +integrate free software tools such as Gitlab (www.gitlab.com), Mailman | ||
| 36 | +(www.gnu.org/software/mailman), Noosfero (www.noosfero.org), and Colab | ||
| 37 | +(www.github.com/colab). | ||
| 38 | 38 | ||
| 39 | During the entire SPB Portal evolution project, we had to handle three distinct | 39 | During the entire SPB Portal evolution project, we had to handle three distinct |
| 40 | issues, usual in a software engineering scenario: reaching the goals which have | 40 | issues, usual in a software engineering scenario: reaching the goals which have |