As a person who traveled to another city for WordCamp and then did it again near my own city and saw some of the same speakers I will tell you that the circuit speakers are a little lax. Even they get tired of their presentation and it really shows. At one of the WordCamps the person (a female) made sure we all knew she published a book and we saw that slide for quite some time. Then she talked in generalities about WordPress and only presented about 10 minutes of her actual presentation and ended with....well it's all up on my website - just go there and pull the slides. Have a great day everyone! It was really bad. She just got complacent. I would encourage the local areas to really try hard and source locally first. Some of the circuit speakers are looking at it as a pitch fest and that type of meeting is not good.