[TriLUG] Survey creating site thingies

[Jack Hill via TriLUG]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG wrote:

>      Need some feedback about where to create online surveys (at a
> friendly price ;) ). I have used the usual suspects before: Google
> (all the trilug surveys) and surveymonkey. Is there anything better?
> Of course better is relative; it depends on what I am trying to use it
> for, so:
>
> 1. Allow multiple choice and short answers
> 2. Some way to save the results so I can do data processing on my own.
> 3. (optional) multiple language support.
>
> Suggestions?

Mauricio,

I've had good success with using LimeSurvey [0]. I used it for the after 
event feedback survey for the past two DurHamFests. We had about a hundred 
respondents. If I remember correctly, TriLUG used it years ago also. It's 
definitely full-featured and will do everything you list and more. The 
trade off is that it will probably take more than five minutes to create 
your first survey, but with the help of the documentation, once I figured 
it out, I didn't have too many complaints.

It's implemented in PHP, and I used a self-hosted version with a 
Postgres database on a shared webhost [1]. It looks like you can get 
others to host it for you as well [2][3], but I don't know what you 
consider to be a friendly price. I was specifically looking for something 
I could self-host.

[0] https://www.limesurvey.org/
[1] https://hcoop.net
[2] https://www.limesurvey.org/pricing
[3] https://www.limesurvey.com/hosting

Best,
Jack