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LimeSurveyLimeSurvey®®
a quick & dirty overviewDennis Little Technology Management PartnersDennisLittle.com
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Dennis LittleDennis Little
KeyCruncher.com – slides available9 years experience integrating open
source and COTS for SMB & Fortune 500my niche: Technology Translatortypically use RedHat/variants or UbuntuShameless plug: Dering Consulting Group,
Management Consulting & Surveys
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LimeSurvey OverviewLimeSurvey Overview
Founded Feb. 2003 as PHPSurveyorRelease v1.80 todayv2 in active development
AJAX interface CakePHP framework Goals:
More modular GUI accessibility
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LimeSurvey RequirementsLimeSurvey Requirements
v1.8~40MB disk spaceDatabase:
MySQL 4.1+ MS SQL 2000+ Postgres 7+
PHP 4.3.2+
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Requirements continued…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)
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How I use LimeSurveyHow I use LimeSurvey
Client satisfaction surveysProspecting new clients / servicesManagement 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
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Others using LimeSurveyOthers using LimeSurvey
2004 presidential election – Verified Voting Foundation
Austrian state governmentUbuntu – community surveyGNOME project – internal survey
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ViabilityViability
SourceForge ranking of 106 today (activity)
Won 1st prize Business Mgmt category @ 2007 Trophees du Libre international
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LimeSurvey FeaturesLimeSurvey Features
Unlimited surveys, questions, participantsMulti-lingual – 50 languages front/back20 question typesBranching / skip logicAssessment surveys / dynamic feedbackReusable answer / label setsAnonymous / tracked surveys
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LimeSurvey Features…LimeSurvey Features…
WYSIWYG HTML edits (bold, italics, links)Saved survey, continue laterCookie or session based surveysTemplates for survey look & feelBack-office data entry support (paper)Expiration of surveysImport/export CSV, SPSS, ExcelUser management / one-time use tokens
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LimeSurvey Features…LimeSurvey Features…
Quotas - only accept so many responsesFree, open source softwareGPL 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!
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LimitationsLimitations
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
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LimeSurvey Question TypesLimeSurvey Question Types
LimeSurvey web site
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Anecdotal Best PracticesAnecdotal Best Practices
Notify participants of upcoming surveyConvey participant’s importance to
successCommunicate purpose of surveyAssure confidentialityNeutral party encourages candor
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Anecdotal Best PracticesAnecdotal Best Practices
Answer: How long will this take?Remind prospects to participateConfirm receiptFollow-upClearly defined deadline to participate w/
fairly short windowDays of the week you send invites,
reminders matters
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Demo Sample Survey?Demo Sample Survey?
Sample survey
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DeploymentDeployment
Download tgzUnpackEdit config.phpchmod directories (templates, upload,
images)Run installer to create databaseDelete installer (forced)Login to admin console
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config.phpconfig.php
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