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LimeSurvey ®

LimeSurvey ®. a quick & dirty overview. Dennis Little Technology Management Partners DennisLittle.com. Dennis Little. KeyCruncher.com – slides available 9 years experience integrating open source and COTS for SMB & Fortune 500 my niche: Technology Translator

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LimeSurvey ®

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  1. LimeSurvey® a quick & dirty overview Dennis Little Technology Management Partners DennisLittle.com

  2. Dennis Little • KeyCruncher.com – slides available • 9 years experience integrating open source and COTS for SMB & Fortune 500 • my niche: Technology Translator • typically use RedHat/variants or Ubuntu • Shameless plug: Dering Consulting Group, Management Consulting & Surveys

  3. LimeSurvey Overview • Founded Feb. 2003 as PHPSurveyor • Release v1.80 today • v2 in active development • AJAX interface • CakePHP framework • Goals: • More modular • GUI accessibility

  4. LimeSurvey Requirements • v1.8 • ~40MB disk space • Database: • MySQL 4.1+ • MS SQL 2000+ • Postgres 7+ • PHP 4.3.2+

  5. Requirements continued… • PHP modules / libraries: • mbstring (localizations) • mysql4 or mysql5 PHP library (standard) • sessions support (standard) • pcre (regular expressions support – standard) • Optional: • iconv extension library on PHP4 (Excel compat) • GD-library (captchas / charts) • LDAP-library (tokens based on LDAP)

  6. How I use LimeSurvey • Client satisfaction surveys • Prospecting new clients / services • Management consulting: • Commonwealth of PA: • DPW, DOT, Dept of Aging, Gov. Budget Office • Chambers of Commerce – member surveys • Gannett Fleming • Harrisburg Young Professionals • Shared LAMP VPS: FC8, 256RAM

  7. Others using LimeSurvey • 2004 presidential election – Verified Voting Foundation • Austrian state government • Ubuntu – community survey • GNOME project – internal survey

  8. Viability • SourceForge ranking of 106 today (activity) • Won 1st prize Business Mgmt category @ 2007 Trophees du Libre international

  9. LimeSurvey Features • Unlimited surveys, questions, participants • Multi-lingual – 50 languages front/back • 20 question types • Branching / skip logic • Assessment surveys / dynamic feedback • Reusable answer / label sets • Anonymous / tracked surveys

  10. LimeSurvey Features… • WYSIWYG HTML edits (bold, italics, links) • Saved survey, continue later • Cookie or session based surveys • Templates for survey look & feel • Back-office data entry support (paper) • Expiration of surveys • Import/export CSV, SPSS, Excel • User management / one-time use tokens

  11. LimeSurvey Features… • Quotas - only accept so many responses • Free, open source software • GPL license v2 or later • Run for any purpose • Modify for any reason • Redistribute copies w/ source & mods • Improve & re-release w/ source & mods • You own the data!

  12. Limitations • Branching does not support an “OR” of multiple questions, only “AND” between questions (v1.7.2) • Emails are text-only (helps with SPAM filtering) and can not include attachments

  13. LimeSurvey Question Types • LimeSurvey web site

  14. Anecdotal Best Practices • Notify participants of upcoming survey • Convey participant’s importance to success • Communicate purpose of survey • Assure confidentiality • Neutral party encourages candor

  15. Anecdotal Best Practices • Answer: How long will this take? • Remind prospects to participate • Confirm receipt • Follow-up • Clearly defined deadline to participate w/ fairly short window • Days of the week you send invites, reminders matters

  16. Demo Sample Survey? • Sample survey

  17. Deployment • Download tgz • Unpack • Edit config.php • chmod directories (templates, upload, images) • Run installer to create database • Delete installer (forced) • Login to admin console

  18. config.php

  19. Dennis Little • KeyCruncher.com - slides download • Questions? CPLUG mailing list

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