FSFTN conducts Guest Lectures, Free Sessions, Paid Workshops, etc. in Colleges regularly. We do this based on the requests from Colleges to Workshops Mailing List and also by approaching the Colleges directly. College workshops have turned very good in reaching out to students and introducing them to FOSS and its related ecosystem. At the end of a Workshop in Colleges, FSFTN would initiate a GLUG which acts as a Knowledge Sharing body inside the campus. The students will be guided by FSFTN on contributing to FOSS Projects and releasing their projects under FOSS Licenses.

Upon request by the Colleges, FSFTN would do a half-day Free Sessions for the students on FOSS Tools and Technologies which will be followed by One or Two Day Workshops.

Below are some of the guidelines that FSFTN follows Before & After a Session in an Institution,

• Gather details about the Venue either it is College, Institution, School, etc.
• Make note of the target audience and no. of people you are going to address
• Ask interested volunteers to take the session. One Core member is recommended
• Take FSFTN Card along with you which has all the details in it.
• Select session topics with a combination of Talks, Technical Sessions and Hands-on. Make sure to talk about the Free Software and Knowledge Commons aspect in each of these.
• Interaction with the participants in most important
• Make a note of the session organizers (from School or College) and team leaders. It is a +1 for leadership skills.
• Get the details of the Contact person from the Venue 3 or 4 days prior to the session
• Communicate the speaker profile of the volunteers to the contact person
• Make a personal checklist of things to do on the day before
• After the session, have an interactive talk with the staffs and coordinators about the usage of FOSS in their college, forming a User group in their college. This would nurture the relationship with the college in a better way
• Don't forget to take a group picture at the end of the session. This would serve as a memory and future inspiration
• After the technical sessions have been completed, in the end, Take about FSFTN and why we are here and how they could join us.
• Talk about GLUG Formation and the knowledge sharing point of it.
• Before leaving, ask written feedback from the participants. This is would help us review our standards.
• After reaching home, make sure we have a review meeting about what happened there, with other volunteers either through Phone or Direct meetings.
• Post pictures of the session in Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, Riot Matrix, Flickr, etc
• Make a write-up on it on our Blog
• With the writeup send a mail to FSFTN Mailing List and a brief report to FSFTN Core
• Submit expenses details for the session during the review meeting