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 The Brazilian Government released in the year 2000 the Eletronic Government
 program (eGov) aiming at democratizing information access and improving the
-public provision quality of service and information. In 2003, the Brazilian
-President created a
+public provision quality of service and information. In 2003, the Federal Government created a
 committee\footnote{\url{http://www.softwarelivre.gov.br/documentos-oficiais/
 DecretoComite}} for implementation of  Free/Libre/Open Source Software
 (FLOSS\footnote{In this work, the acronym ``FLOSS'' is used as a representative
 for ``Free Software'', ``Open Source Software'' (OSS), and``Free/Open Source
-Software'' (FOSS).}) and thereafter the Chief of Staff of Brazil sent a
-circular- letter to all Ministries in which the recommendation to adopt FLOSS
+Software'' (FOSS).}) and thereafter a
+circular-letter was sent to all Ministries in which the recommendation to adopt FLOSS
 became a public
 policy\footnote{\url{http://www.softwarelivre.gov.br/documentos-oficiais/circulardoministro}}.
 In 2007, the Brazilian Public Software Portal (\textit{Portal do Software
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 \label{sec:related}
 The new SPB platform is a fully integrated environment,
-being very advanced in comparison with related projects and initiatives.
+very advanced in comparison with related initiatives.
 %
 For instance, the USA government has a platform designed to improve access to
-the federal government developed software\footnote{\url{https://code.gov}}.
-Code.gov is an interface to organize the USA government projects and, in short,
-make it easy for users and developers to obtain information and access their
-source code repositories at GitHub. However, there are not social networking
-and CMS features, as well as, other communication resources provided by that
-platform.
+federal government software\footnote{\url{https://code.gov}}.
+Code.gov is an interface to organize USA government projects,
+making it easy for users and developers to obtain information and to access their
+source code repositories at GitHub. However, it does not provide social networking
+and CMS features, as well as, other communication resources.
 Additionally, there are two initiatives in Europe:
 OSOR\footnote{\url{https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor}} and
 OW2\footnote{\url{http://ow2.org}}. The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) is a
 community hosted in the JoinUp platform powered by the European Commission.
-OSOR aims at exchanging information, experiences and best practices around the
-use of FLOSS in the public administration. It helps to find a FLOSS made
-available by other public administrations, providing access to information such
-as news, events, studies and solutions related to implementation of open source
-software. It also offers forum discussions and community mailing lists, but it
-does not have an integrated source code repository manager and for the each
-project there is a link to its own external repository (or its tarball file).
+OSOR intends to exchange information, experiences, and best practices around the
+use of FLOSS in the public administration. It supports the discovering of FLOSS projects made
+available by public agencies, providing information about these projects, such
+as news, events, studies, and solutions.
+It also offers discussion forums and community mailing lists. But it
+does not have an integrated source code repository manager, so for each
+project there is a link to its own external repository.
 %
-OW2 is a FLOSS community to promote the development of FLOSS middleware, generic
-business applications, cloud computing platforms and foster a community and
-business ecosystem. In short, it aims to support the development, deployment
-and management of distributed applications with a focus on FLOSS middleware and
-related development and management tools.
-
-Moreover, in 2007 the European Comission published a study examined the impact
-the development and distribution of FLOSS by public bodies has on eGovernment
-services, the economy, and the information society \cite{ghosh2004}. And there
-was between 2007 until 2011 the QualiPSo project that aimed at providing FLOSS
-users, developers, and consumers, with quality resources and expertise on the
-various topics related to FLOSS. The QualiPSo project also had planned to
-develop a platform called QualiPSo Factory but it was not fully completed. 
+OW2 is an organization that promotes the development, deployment and management 
+of FLOSS middleware, generic
+business applications, and cloud computing platforms, besides fostering a community and
+business ecosystem around such projects. 
+
+\leo{E aí, o que a OW2 tem a ver com o SPB?}
+
+Moreover, in 2007 the European Comission published a study examining the impact
+that the development and distribution of FLOSS by public agencies have on eGovernment
+services and the economy~\cite{ghosh2004}. And, from 2007 to 2011, there
+was the QualiPSo project, whose objective was to provide FLOSS
+users, developers, and consumers with resources and expertise on FLOSS quality.
+The QualiPSo project also had planned to
+develop a platform called QualiPSo Factory, but it was not fully completed. 
 Finally, in Latin American there is an initiative based on the SPB project
-called ``Software Publico
-Regional''\footnote{\url{http://softwarepublicoregionalbeta.net}}. From a
-practical point of view, it provides a customized Gitlab instance to share the
-source code and documentation of the project from the involved countries.
+called ``Software Público
+Regional''\footnote{\url{http://softwarepublicoregionalbeta.net}}. 
+It provides a customized Gitlab instance to share 
+source code and documentation of projects developed by the involved countries.
 %
-Like Brazil, Chile has its own portal also called ``Software
-Publico''\footnote{\url{http://www.softwarepublico.gob.cl}}. Users can create
-content in the communities (news items, documents, wiki pages), but source code
+Like Brazil, Chile has its own portal, called ``Repositorio Software
+Público''\footnote{\url{http://www.softwarepublico.gob.cl}}. In the communities of the portal,
+users can create content such as news, documents, and wiki pages, but source code
 repositories are available at the Bitbucket
 platform\footnote{\url{https://bitbucket.org/softwarepublico}}.
 The Brazilian government needed to evolve the SPB platform that existed since
 2007. When we started this project, the SPB Portal had about 200 thousand
-registered users. For example, we could not just contact these users and ask
-them to register an account at Github as well. Moreover, after the Edward
-Snowden's case, the Brazilian government approved a specific law decree
-(8.135/2013) to rule its communication services, requiring the public
-administration to host its information systems to be provided by itself, what
-rules out usage of private platforms, specially ones provided by foreign
+registered users. We could not just do something like contacting these users and asking
+them to register an account at Github. Moreover, after the Edward
+Snowden's case, the Brazilian government issued a decree
+(8.135/2013) requiring public
+agencies to host their information systems by themselves, 
+avoiding the usage of private platforms, especially the ones provided by foreign
 companies. Therefore, we needed to develop our own solution to cover all the
 requirements, producing a complete governmental integrated platform for
 collaborative software development.
+
+\leo{Me parece que o decreto fala sobre sistemas de comunicação. Acho que o foco era e-mail. Não me parece que o SPB tenha a ver com isso. A menos que se considere algo pelos fóruns... para refletir.}
+