Hi! Pravin at Red Hat, who maintains the Lohit fonts, summarises the recent Open Source Language Summit, held in Pune, India:
http://pravin-s.blogspot.in/2013/11/points-on-open-source-language-summit.html For those considering designing new libre Indic fonts, this might be of interest: http://pravin-s.blogspot.in/2013/11/how-to-lohit-ise-open-type-fonts-not.html -- Cheers Dave