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, Charterhouse School|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. February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Groff is the GNU replacement for the troff and nroff text formatters. ... Expat is a stream-oriented XML 1. ... Open source software refers to computer software and the availability of its source code as open source under an open source license to study, change, and improve its design. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the capital of the United Kingdom and England. ... College name The House of Scholars of Merton Named after Walter de Merton Established 1264 Sister College Peterhouse Warden Prof. ... Bangkok from the Chao Phraya River at sunset, July 2004 The Wat Phra Kaew temple Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep ( (help· info)), or Krung Thep Maha Nakhon ( (help· info), IPA: ), is the capital and largest city of Thailand, with an official 1990 census population of 8,538,610. ... 1995 (MCMXCV in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. November 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: November 2004 in sports November 2004 in science Events Deaths in November • 30 Pierre Berton • 29 John Drew Barrymore • 26 Bill Alley • 24 Arthur Hailey • 23 Rafael Eitan • 18 Bobby Frank Cherry • 16 John... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Open standards are publicly available specifications for achieving a specific task. ... Software localization is a process of translating software user interfaces from one language to another and adapting it to suit a foreign culture. ... OpenOffice. ... Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. ...

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