James Clark, (February 23 1964) is the author of groff and expat and has done much work with open-source software and XML. Born in London, and educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, Clark has lived in Bangkok, Thailand since 1995, and is now a permanent resident. He owns a small company called Thai Open Source Software Center, which provides him a legal framework for his open-source activities.

James Clark served as Technical Lead of the Working Group that developed XML, notably contributing the empty-element "<empty/>" syntax and the name "XML".

Since November 2004, he has been working for Thailand's Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA), to promote open source technologies and open standards in the country. Part of his current job is pushing the Thai localization of OpenOffice.org office suite and Mozilla Firefox web browser, along with other open source software packages.

Project of James in SIPA

• Chantra : cd opensource software for thai. Like project OpenCD. (Chantra English page)
• Suriya : Linux distribution for SME server (Base on debian). (Suriyan English page)

External links

• Biography, at his own homepage, jclark.com.
• A Triumph of Simplicity: James Clark on Markup Languages and XML

1964 births | Living people | Free software programmers | British computer programmers

James Clark (Informatiker) | ジェームズ・クラーク (ソフトウェア技術者)