In reply to chrislema.

What Chris Lema said. Plus, when you're capable of putting a professional event together and compensate speaker's traveling, you probably don't need sponsorship assistance anyhow.

You admittedly won't be able to leverage the WordCamp trademark's popularity when you choose a different name, but heck, our meetup group of 5 people organized 2 WP Camps in Berlin 2012 and 2013, and we didn't need any assistance! (Yay, Axel!) Those events, btw, where totally by the community, for the community and of the community, and a great success -- just not labeled WordCamps. This year, there was a "real" (=labeled) WordCamp in Hamburg then, and everyone was just as enthusiastic about it.

So horray diversity! If anyone think everything always has to be I/O all the time, give yourself a break. :)