What type of email system do you have now. I am sure it must have some type of mailing list capabilities. You could always consider some other type of distribution. A CMS maybe with logins for parents. When you say use OpenOffice are you referring to the format the documents would be in? I would recommend making them PDF and not worrying about it if so. <div>On 3/21/06, Thomas Kovalcik <<a href="mailto:kovalcik@orion-design.com">kovalcik@orion-design.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, The school I work with wants to provide an email service for parents instead of sending paper home with the kids. They are looking to set up a database of parents email and being able to send mailing out to specific grades/groups (1st, 3rd, chorus, etc.). Has anyone found a good solution for this? Open source is preferred and I would love something that uses Open Office as I still have some MS Office holdouts in the office. Thanks -- Thomas Kovalcik Orion Design Technologies 122 Mast Road Lee, NH 03824 (603)659-9800 x104 <a href="mailto:kovalcik@orion-design.com">kovalcik@orion-design.com</a> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>