[TriLUG] Survey creating site thingies

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:47:44AM -0500, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
> 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.

Mauricio,

I will add a vote for LimeSurvey, as well, particularly self-hosting.

I used it a few years ago in a project, and found it very flexible.


Brian