Thank you for your kind words, Saj.
Integration: This is a good idea, because people tend to answer one or two quick questions. You could rotate through quite a few over time.
For work I use SurveyMonkey, but it's commercial, proprietary, and probably US hosted, so unsuitable.
I did an extensive search for customizable survey engines in 2013 and found this interesting system (which I have never tried to deploy):
https://www.limesurvey.org/
Also,
https://apps.sandstorm.io/ has a few options I don't know anything about. Here is a document that talks about SandForms, which sounds great and was made by ThoughtWorks
https://opensource.com/life/15/12/5-open-source-web-apps-self-hosted
I also did some new searches just now and found:
http://alternativeto.net/software/surveymonkey/?platform=self-hosted
https://github.com/mattjdev/sumosurvey
Susan
On Dec 16, 2016, at 11:05 AM, sajolida <sajolida@???> wrote:
> I'm putting Susan in explicit copy of this email even though she's on
> the list, because I'm directing my question at her but I want this
> discussion to happen in public.
>
> I've read with interest your recent article on surveys [1] and I've been
> thinking for a while that this should become part of our UX toolkit for
> Tails (we never did any). Especially because it's a bit more tricky for
> us than let's say Google to rely on other sources of data, for example
> quantitative data about who our users are or what they do with Tails
> since everything is so anonymous :)
>
> [1]: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/qualitative-surveys/
>
> So I wanted to ask you more about possible survey platforms we could use
> for Tails. As a start, it's pretty clear that we would be very reluctant
> to rely on proprietary third-party services (like Google Forms) and
> would rather either host it ourselves (if it's free software and easy to
> deploy and maintain) or rely on non-commercial and free software
> third-party services (I could see ourselves consider something like
> Framaforms [2] which relies on Drupal Webform but run by a
> privacy-respective French association but so far it seems to be in
> French only).
>
> [2]: https://framaforms.org/
>
> Another question I have in mind is whether such a thing could be
> integrated in our website, for example, to ask a few questions on the
> homepage of Tor Browser in Tails without people having to click on a
> link and go elsewhere to answer the survey. Maybe there are platforms
> that could receive HTTP POST submissions from static HTML forms on our
> website or JavaScript platforms that could be plugged into our static
> site generator...
>
>
