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Canonical is a UK-based, privately held computer software company founded to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects. Principally, these are free and open-source software (FOSS) or tools designed to improve collaboration between free software developers and contributors.

DataArt shares the values and the vision Canonical brings to the industry. We partnered with Canonical to showcase how existing markets can be transformed with technologies and a holistic engineering approach.

Business Challenge

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DataArt’s team has released the latest version of an Amazon Alexa virtual device project (version 1.1). https://github.com/devicehive/AlexaDevice/releases/tag/v1.1 . This project aims to provide the ability to bring Alexa to any Linux device including embedded systems like Raspberry Pi boards. The binary release is packed into a snap package, which is a perfect way to deliver this project.

Short instructions to run it with snap:

1. You need to create your own Alexa Device on the Amazon developer portal. Follow this manual to create your …