Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Due to Coronavirus
Feb. 28, 2020Facebook has canceled its annual F8 developer conferenceciting the outbreak of coronavirus. The event was scheduled to be held on the 5th and 6th of May in San Jose, California.
In the same blog post, Facebook’s director of developer platforms Konstantinos Papamiltiadis mentions that thecompany will be organizing a “combo of locally hosted events, videos and live streamed content”to make its announcements.
According to Papamiltiadis, the social media giant was exploring other ways to move forward with the in-person part of the F8 conference but didn’t proceed further as it “didn’t feel right to have F8 without international developers in attendance”.
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