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LimeSurveyLimeSurvey®®
a quick & dirty overviewDennis Little Technology Management PartnersDennisLittle.com
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
LimeSurvey OverviewLimeSurvey Overview
Founded Feb. 2003 as PHPSurveyorRelease v1.80 todayv2 in active development
AJAX interface CakePHP framework Goals:
More modular GUI accessibility
LimeSurvey RequirementsLimeSurvey Requirements
v1.8~40MB disk spaceDatabase:
MySQL 4.1+ MS SQL 2000+ Postgres 7+
PHP 4.3.2+
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)
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
Others using LimeSurveyOthers using LimeSurvey
2004 presidential election – Verified Voting Foundation
Austrian state governmentUbuntu – community surveyGNOME project – internal survey
ViabilityViability
SourceForge ranking of 106 today (activity)
Won 1st prize Business Mgmt category @ 2007 Trophees du Libre international
LimeSurvey FeaturesLimeSurvey Features
Unlimited surveys, questions, participantsMulti-lingual – 50 languages front/back20 question typesBranching / skip logicAssessment surveys / dynamic feedbackReusable answer / label setsAnonymous / tracked surveys
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
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!
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
LimeSurvey Question TypesLimeSurvey Question Types
LimeSurvey web site
Anecdotal Best PracticesAnecdotal Best Practices
Notify participants of upcoming surveyConvey participant’s importance to
successCommunicate purpose of surveyAssure confidentialityNeutral party encourages candor
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
Demo Sample Survey?Demo Sample Survey?
Sample survey
DeploymentDeployment
Download tgzUnpackEdit config.phpchmod directories (templates, upload,
images)Run installer to create databaseDelete installer (forced)Login to admin console
config.phpconfig.php
Dennis LittleDennis Little
KeyCruncher.com - slides download
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