Hey Matt,

are you actually reading these comments?

Because if yes, you might be willing to help me answer a question: should I sign up for next year’s Word Camp Europe, which happens to be in my home town?

Here’s why I am struggling with an answer:

A few years ago I fell in love. With WordPress. Deeply (on a developer level) and non-biased (meaning being someone you could not easily put into one of your user or community member categories).

Falling in love with some…thing mostly has a few reasons and with WordPress it were these:

- I liked the fact that WP could deal with dynamic content easily. I do not come with a blogger’s background in mind. I rather loved the structure of WP for its ability to create custom post types and fields which allows us to do whatever our mind comes up with.
- I also liked the fact (and I took it as the philosophy of WP.org) to have a clean core install plus the possibility to extend my projects with plugins. Functionality of my choice. Needed functionality goes in (via a plugin or coded by myself) and not-needed functionality stays out. Simple. Effective. Lovely.

I was in love with WP because there was one thing in our relationship that made me a loyal partner: freedom.

Freedom of choice.

And now I feel as being cheated on.

The problem with people like me is that once we feel this one wrong move, this one step crossing a border which cannot be taken back, we will give the reason for our relationship a second thought and get our mind clear.

With observing how my partner apparently changes into a direction I cannot relate to anymore I am forced to take action.

Now, how should this action look like?

Should I cheat back and go with ClassicPress where my loyalty seems to have a better home or do we want to speak about a relationship coaching held by Mortan Rand-Hendriksen?

My support goes always and only with people who make the right decisions and this is why I wonder if I better wait for a ClassicPress Camp Europe. I guess there are the people whose community I rather want to be part of.