\begin{abstract}

The Brazilian Public Software (SPB) is a program promoted by the Brazilian
Federal Government to foster sharing and collaboration on Free/Libre/Open
Source Software (FLOSS) solutions for the public administration. In this
context, a public software is considered a public good and the Federal
Government assumes some responsibilities related to its use. Once its
devolpment principles is the same of the FLOSS projects, we have designed the
SPB Portal, a platform based on the integration and evolution of existing FLOSS
tools. It provides several modern features for software collaborative
development, helping the Brazilian public administration in sharing its
solutions. In this paper, we present this integrated software development
platform that was developed for the SPB program by a heterogeneous team
composed by professors, master students and undergraduate students, as well as
by professionals from FLOSS communities. The development of this platform used
several FLOSS projects, providing a non-trivial integration among them.  This
effort has also produced several new features that were contributed back to
these projects. Alongside the architectural challenges, we also discuss in this
paper our work process, based on agile and free software development practices,
and the lessons learned during 30 months of work on the SPB project.

\end{abstract} 

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