Although, the venue itself was good. The area was really criminal and dirty. I walked there in the daytime and was really shocked. Eventually, the plane tickets and hotels and other expenses can easily make it the most expensive trip for a regular WordPress-guy without any guess on ROI.

This is what I’ve heard from too many people including sponsors. In addition, many people did not understand why WP Foundation does not allow sponsors like Envato and Templatemonster (because they do not support GPL as much, as WP wants), but you can see Mojo Marketplace as sponsors doing basically the same in terms of GPL/non-GPL product policy…