I was sad to hear today that Tectonic magazine has been discontinued. It’s only the print magazine that’s disappearing, the website will continue, and perhaps even do prosper as the small team focuses on just that aspect. It appears that advertisers weren’t coming to the party. As the publishers said:
The decision to close Tectonic Magazine is not one we wanted to make
nor a decision we took lightly. The encouragement and positive
response from readers has consistently exceeded our expectations and
has made us proud of the magazine and glad that we could play a role
in the growth of free and open source software in South Africa.
Unfortunately the financial burden of producing and distributing the
magazine has made its continuation unsustainable.
…
We concluded that although our readership was ready for a magazine
focused on open source in the marketplace, the advertisers are not
yet ready to support open source.