Dear Olly Betts I am very excited to contribute in open source community through the platform of Google Summer of Code 2011. I have visited the ideas of ?Xapian? at http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas for GSoC 2011. I am interested in working on ?Improve Existing Bindings?. The reason for my interest is that I have previously worked on .NET related projects both in VB and C#. I also have worked on C++ projects. I am writing to let you know my understanding of the project and required knowledge of technologies. I would like your feedback on it. My understanding of the requirements is as follows: - To study current bindings. In case of C#, I am studying this link ( http://xapian.org/docs/bindings/csharp/) - To implement improvements in the current bindings. Would you please refer me some material to study in this regard? Also what kinds of binding improvements are required by Xapian? I look forward to your response. Regards Rauf University of Gloucestershire