In reply to Mark.

These seem to be very valid points for me.

All these rules, guidelines, whatever -- call them dogmas -- are just to much at this point. It takes a free and open spirit away from organizers who best know their audience and region/city/country. You cannot be somewhere located in the U.S. create rules for whole other countries on this planet and this "stupid" rules may hurt the community in the end.

And to make this absurdity even worse, this team is called "WordPress Community Support". In case of WCNL it looks currently as just the opposite of it...

If a countrywide WordCamp WCNL will SERVE the community in this country best, then we should absolutely support it and help make it happen, regardless of name, size, whatever. The goal is a sound community, a growing community and the growth of WordPress as a ecosytem.

Situations like laid out above, don't help these goals - in no way.