{"id":132,"date":"2006-08-16T00:08:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=132"},"modified":"2006-08-16T00:08:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:08:46","slug":"tectonic-magazine-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Tectonic magazine discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to hear today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tectonic.co.za\">Tectonic <\/a>magazine has been discontinued. It&#8217;s only the print magazine that&#8217;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&#8217;t coming to the party. As the publishers said:<\/p>\n<p><em>The decision to close Tectonic Magazine is not one we wanted to make<br \/>\nnor a decision we took lightly. The encouragement and positive<br \/>\nresponse from readers has consistently exceeded our expectations and<br \/>\nhas made us proud of the magazine and glad that we could play a role<\/p>\n<p>in the growth of free and open source software in South Africa.<br \/>\nUnfortunately the financial burden of producing and distributing the<br \/>\nmagazine has made its continuation unsustainable.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWe concluded that although our readership was ready for a magazine<br \/>\nfocused on open source in the marketplace, the advertisers are not<br \/>\nyet ready to support open source.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to hear today that Tectonic magazine has been discontinued. It&#8217;s only the print magazine that&#8217;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&#8217;t coming to the party. As the publishers said: The decision to close Tectonic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=132\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tectonic magazine discontinued<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}