Sharing The Point Antarctica

T3- joel Oleson

I’ve been dreaming about visiting Antarctica for a number of years. At first it was thoughts of completing a visit to each of the 7 continents, then it was wow I’ve spoken on all of the peopled continents. How can I speak at a conference in Antarctica? Well, as one of the founders of the concept of Sharing the Point the mission of the non profit organization is to reach the ends of the earth, and find those communities and individuals who feel alone and disconnected with the community. Michael Noel, and I did some serious research on how we could not only visit Antarctica, but reach out to the researchers and those on the bases that might benefit from some community outreach. We determined that even if we couldn’t get a venue, or wifi, we’d record our sessions and talk to the penguins. No matter what… This was going to happen.

In our research, our best bet of keeping the trip costs to a minimum while having the best exposure was to visit King George Island. The majority of the bases are there. I’d say with the Villa Las Estrellas, Chilean base, Russian Base, Chinese base and Uruguayan base there must be 200-300 people at peak if not more…. Just on King George island. The Villa Las Estrellas (Star Village) and Chinese base are the two largest bases in Antarctica, so staying on the Russian base which is right next to the Star Village was really ideal. The tour program itself would get us over to the Chinese base.

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Joel was a speaker at the European SharePoint Conference 2011.

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