[TriLUG] Survey creating site thingies

[James Toebes via TriLUG]

I'm using Nextcloud. One of the optional apps is a forms module. Customizable form. Results in CSV file.


You can setup a nextcloud server at home. Use one of the dynamic DNS servers to make it externally accessible. I am running on an old PC. Already have internet access. Only costs are time and if you want to pay for a DDNS service.


"Jack Hill via TriLUG" trilug at trilug.org – February 18, 2021 10:48 AM
> 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] www.limesurvey.org/
> [1] hcoop.net
> [2] www.limesurvey.org/pricing
> [3] www.limesurvey.com/hosting
>
> Best,
> Jack
>