Thank you, thank you! This aspect is pretty important to a lot of us coming from Asia - even more so in India, where English is the politically incorrect, defacto national language. Despite that, there is a large gap in adoption of open source software in one of the largest markets in the world, where it is often a choice between being able to afford a Linux desktop vs not being able to afford a Windows computer at all.

It is a cultural gap that prevents most open source software to be architected to solve problems specific to Asia (be it support for complex Indic fonts to assuming expensive system hardware requirements). This gap not just prevents developers from working together, but the even more dangerous symptom is to not identify certain problems as being important enough[1] . I was not aware that this was (rightfully) considered important enough for a session.

[1 - very old. apologies for the rant] http://sandeep.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/harfbuzz-graphite-an...