A New Malayalam Free Software Font Project

Hi, I'm a student at The University of Reading, UK, on the Masters degree in Typeface Design - http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk/ - and am working on free software fonts. A significant part of the course is developing our typeface into a family with a complex script complement, and full OpenType features. I am considering designing an original Malayalam typeface designed for reading long passages of text on screen, that will be wholly created with and released as free software. I thought I'd drop this mailing list a line to ask if anyone here would like to be involved in my project - giving me feedback and supporting information and perhaps doing some testing for me next year :-) Initially I'm interested in the technical limitations around supporting Indic languages including Malayalam in the most common free rendering systems, both on screen (Pango/freetype) and for printing (Firefox, scribus, TeX, OpenOffice.org) Also, if anyone who has made any Indic fonts with free software is on this list, I hope you'll also get in contact with me :-) -- Regards, Dave