{"id":12835,"date":"2010-06-03T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-03T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T09:10:00","slug":"tectonic-relaunches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/12835-tectonic-relaunches.html","title":{"rendered":"Tectonic relaunches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tectonic.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Tectonic<\/a>, one of the only websites in Africa specialising in open source news, has been relaunched.<\/p>\n<p>The site, which closed down in July last year, began publishing again on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Tectonic editor and founder, Alastair Otter, closed the site last year saying that other projects and pressures had made it difficult to keep it running. &#8220;At the time I was involved in a number of other projects and the added pressure of maintaining the site, which wasn&#8217;t my primary job, became too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision to restart Tectonic wasn&#8217;t an overnight decision. When I first closed it down many people approached me with ideas of restarting it but I didn&#8217;t have the time to do it. Over the past year things have changed and I now feel better placed to work on Tectonic again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the 11 months that I wasn&#8217;t publishing Tectonic it became very clear that almost no publications give any coverage to open source software in Africa. I&#8217;ve always believed that there are great open source projects and people in Africa and part of the motivation to restart Tectonic was to start doing this again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s also important to provide an African perspective on major international news. Too often this is ignored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Funding the site, says Otter, will largely be through a combination of online advertising, community support and related projects. &#8220;I have a number of open source-related projects that I am hoping to launch from the site,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tectonic.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Tectonic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?238017-Tectonic-relaunches-website\"><strong>Tectonic website relaunched<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#039;s premier open source software news site restarted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}