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[i3eSW] improvements in the introduction section

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14 14 ## Introduction and Context
15 15  
16   -We have worked on a Brazilian government three-year-long project to evolve an
  16 +We have worked on a Brazilian government three-year-long project to redesign an
17 17 existing platform that had technical issues and a lack of political support.
18   -The evolution project started in a presidential election year and everyone
  18 +This evolution project started in a presidential election year and everyone
19 19 involved were under Presidential re-election campaign pressure to show results.
20   -Even with the re-election of the Brazilian President in 2014, leadership in
21   -government agencies suddenly changed, what was worsened by corruption scandals
22   -revealed by the Brazilian Federal police, in particular the "Car-Wash"
23   -investigation. That reflected on the project’s requirements: each new leader
24   -wanted to fulfill their political agenda. In this scenario, delivery delays
25   -could have sunk the project into oblivion.
26   -
27   -From 2014 to 2016, our team developed the new platform for the Brazilian Public
28   -Software (SPB, Portuguese acronym) Portal (www.softwarepublico.gov.br) funded
29   -by a grant of 2,619,965.00 BRL (about 1.000,000.00 USD in January 2014) from
30   -the Federal Government. The SPB Portal has evolved to a CDE [1] and this
31   -evolution has brought important benefits not just to the Brazilian government ,
32   -but also to society as a whole. For the government, the bureaucracy on using
33   -the same software across government agencies, duplicate works and costs all are
34   -reduced. The society gains a transparency and collaboration mechanism, since
35   -anyone can check the government expenses on software and contribute to the
36   -software communities. To achieve these goals, we have chosen to integrate more
37   -than free software tools (such as Gitlab (www.gitlab.com), Mailman
38   -(www.gnu.org/software/mailman), Noosfero (www.noosfero.org), and Colab
39   -(www.github.com/colab)) rather than write everything from scratch.
  20 +Even with the re-election of the Brazilian President, leadership in government
  21 +agencies suddenly changed that reflected on the project’s requirements: each
  22 +new leader wanted to fulfill their political agenda. In this scenario, delivery
  23 +delays could have sunk the project into oblivion.
  24 +
  25 +From 2013 to 2016, our team developed the new platform for the Brazilian Public
  26 +Software (SPB, Portuguese acronym) Portal (www.softwarepublico.gov.br). The SPB
  27 +Portal has evolved to a CDE [1] and this evolution has brought important
  28 +benefits not just to the Brazilian government , but also to society as a whole.
  29 +For the government, the bureaucracy on using the same software across
  30 +government agencies, duplicate works and costs all are reduced. The society
  31 +gains a transparency and collaboration mechanism, since anyone can check the
  32 +government expenses on software and contribute to the software communities. To
  33 +achieve these goals, we have chosen to integrate more than free software tools
  34 +(such as Gitlab (www.gitlab.com), Mailman (www.gnu.org/software/mailman),
  35 +Noosfero (www.noosfero.org), and Colab (www.github.com/colab)) rather than
  36 +write everything from scratch.
40 37  
41 38 During the entire SPB Portal evolution project, we had to handle three distinct
42 39 issues, usual in a software engineering scenario: reaching the goals which have
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