On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:23:41 +0000 (GMT) MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop allegedly wrote:
mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
Chris G cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
I want to build an on-line questionnaire, a very basic one, are there any ready made applications in the Linux/Open Source world for doing this?
Do you need to build your own? Surveymonkey lets you create your own on-line survey quite quickly.
Yikes! Surveymonkey is hosted in the US (so outside our privacy laws), isn't accessible to some assisted-access and secured browsers and has nothing to do with free and open source software so why even mention that piece of adware on this list?
Ummm. Look at Chris's original question. "I want to build an on-line questionnaire. a very basic one"
Now look at my reply. "Do you need to build your own?"
Seems a reasonable enough response to me. Chris wanted something quick and dirty. Whilst he may have specifically asked for OSS application recommendations, he didn't mention privacy, security, accessibility or anything else. Anyone conducting any kind of on-line survey must assume that it is not secure. It can be made secureish (for some definition of secure) but it will never be perfect. So, as I said, my pointing to a possible alternative approach to building from scratch seems reasonable to me.
I didn't even recommend surveymonkey - I merely pointed out that it would let you create an on-line survey quickly (which seemed to me to meet Chris's request). The fact that it may not "have anything to do with free and open source software" should not preclude anyone from responding as I did. After all, I (and many others) have frequently answered questions posed here which have only tangential references to linux or OSS (see discussions of networking and ADSL for example).
Sometimes thare are tools, techniques, capabilities or services which are NOT OSS based but which still might meet a short term specific need. Off topic? Almost certainly. Unacceptable? I leave that to others to decide.
Cheers
Mick
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