Indian language localization of Free&OpenSource is been happening for a while (6yrs), with many languages being fully supported. Debian and its derivatives have been the distribution of choice by localizers.

The IndLinux project has been on the fore front of Indic localization and over the last 3 years has been using debian as the distro for localization development.

This talk will highlight the developments in Indian language localization, problems faced, efforts to have Debian support all Indic languages and activities to promote Debian in India.

Speaker is coordinator of IndLinux Project (http://www.indlinux.org)