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

2. Dennis Little KeyCruncher.com – slides available KeyCruncher.com 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 & SurveysDering Consulting Group

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 1 st 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