@Matthew McGarity - You're right, there is no point in us becoming frustrated with the rules regarding WordCamp when we are entirely free to organize our own events, according to local needs, under different names.

You can understand though, I'm sure, why people express such frustration, it seems bizarre that the priority of a WordPress Foundation is not to promote WordPress usage and grassroots participation in any way possible but, rather, to embed yet another centralized bastion of rules and bureaucracy in a world that is already drowning in red tape.

It is what it is and, clearly, not open for discussion, so, we just have to shrug our shoulders and route around the problem.