The back story of the very-real world application of the WordPress system by a team of photographers, embedded with US Marines in southern Afghanistan.
Check out Teru’s slides: Taking WordPress to War-Basetrack.org
About the Speaker:
Teru Kuwayama is a photographer from New York, and the founder of ww.lightstalkers.org, a web-based network of photographers, filmmakers, journalists, and complex emergency operators. His work over the past decade has focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir. He was the 2009–2010 Knight Fellow at Stanford University, a 2010 TEDGlobal Fellow and a 2010 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. He received a 2010 Knight News Challenge Award to launch Basetrack, an online social media project that chronicled the deployment of a US Marine battalion in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011.