I think one of the issues that's not directly affecting this, but certainly sitting in the back of people's minds, is the growing disparage between those "in the circle" and those "outside the circle".

Capital_P_Dangit(), bbpress2.0, admin bar not being opt-in, WordCamp Name/Sponsor issues... and a great many more have created this small divide between the people in the know and the rest of us.

It's not that I don't trust what's said, it's more than I no longer think that any changes to the "rules" are automatically in my interest. Not a bad thing I suppose, but the previous high regard that I held many in just 2 years ago has disappeared to be replaced with a significant level of mistrust.

I mean, for a company big on Openness, where are the "rules" for running a WordCamp on the Wordcamp central website? I can't find them (again, might just be me, it's late here)