Having a city or country based WordCamp is not something black and white. You have to take into consideration a lot of factors: how developed a community is, how developed is the country, how many people work with WordPress, how many people attend other events etc. The same rules cannot apply to every country in the world.

I'll give you an example of Croatia. In Croatia, we organised our first WordCamp in 2015, and it was called WordCamp Croatia. Our goal was to hold a WordCamp in a different city each year, and for the first year, we decided to go with Rijeka, a smaller city with around 150k people, instead of Zagreb (our capital with 700k). For outsiders that might seem illogical, but keep in mind that local people (and by local I mean people from Croatia) know what's usually the best for them. Croatia has a problem that everything is so centralised in Zagreb, so people living there have much more opportunity than anyone else. By having not WordCamp Rijeka but WordCamp Croatia, we showed to people that this is a conference (and I use this term here to the point that half the people present were not familiar with what WordCamp is, other than being a conference) on a national level, thus making them more willing to participate. Afterwards, we have seen an increase in number of people involved in the community and helping each other on various channels (primary our Facebook group).

Last year we applied for WordCamp Croatia again, but due to a rule change, we ended up with WordCamp Split instead. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of the people who pulled it off, but because of the name change we lost some good sponsors, and things were harder for them (and for us who helped). Because of the name change, we had to promote it as "the only WordCamp in Croatia in 2016" so people would realise the importance of it. And the importance and benefits are well explained by others, especially Marcel and Remkus.

Whatever we did as a community, we did it following the rules for organisers. Our first goal was not to organise a WordCamp but to grow our community. Organising a WordCamp each year is just a "reward" for people organising meetups in different cities. For Croatia, a country with only 4m having a WordCamp name after city doesn't make as much sense as for countries that are large and have a giant population. Let me give you an example: in the US alone, there are 17 cities that are larger than our capital Zagreb, roughly 117 cities that are larger than Split which hosted WordCamp last year, and 171 cities that are larger than Rijeka – where the first and only WordCamp Croatia happened :).

I strongly believe that the most important part of every WordCamp is inclusiveness. In the end, if we can have more people included that's a victory for everyone, nevertheless a WordCamp is named by a city or by a country. I am sad for what happened to Netherlands, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are more examples, and if we want to grow communities worldwide, maybe this is a good time to think of a set of rules that can work globally, but that will take into consideration local differences.