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=== Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA)===
From <time datetime="2004-11">November 2004</time> until late <time>2006</time>, Clark worked for Thailand's Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA), to promote [[Open-source software|open source]] technologies and [[open standards]] in the country. This work included pushing the Thai [[software localization|localization]] of [[OpenOffice.org]] office suite and the [[Mozilla Firefox]] web browser, along with other open source software packages.

Other projects at SIPA include:

* Chantra: An [[Open-source software|open source]] Thai project with programs for Windows, like the [[OpenCD]] project.
* Suriyan GNU/Linux: A user-friendly "instant server" system for small and medium-sized companies<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.suriyan.org/|title=Default OaO Sedo Frameset|website=suriyan.org}}</ref> not to be confused with SIPA's new, unrelated project with a similar name, Suriyan Linux Live CD.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://suriyan.in.th/|title=Suriyan Linux Live CD|date=11 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211194451/http://suriyan.in.th/|archive-date=11 February 2008}}</ref>