Just to be clear. The event is not "killed" by WordCamp Central. The only "ask" was to rename it to "WordCamp Utrecht, Netherlands".

@sarah Your headline is very misleading.

The organizers themselves decided to not have the event because they don't think the request is warranted, despite the fact that the City.Name WordCamp initiative has been rolling out globally successfully for the last seven years, and the organizers have known about it.

It is their decision not to have WordCamp in the Netherlands at all.

The WordPress community is quite active in the Netherlands, as the numerous meetup groups show. People will attend at a "WordCamp Utrecht" as they would come to a "WordCamp NL."

We won't know, however, because the organizers rather not have an event at all than prove this hypothesis right.

Disclaimer: I volunteer sporadically on WordPress Community Team, and I am a WordPress Meetup organizer in Florida. I, however, don't speak for the team. My comment is my opinion alone.

You can read the official "Additional Context around WordCamp Netherlands" on make.wordpress.org http://bit.ly/2nA7lXA