If you don't like the WC rules, just opt out. PressNomics (which we organize) did not make a bunch of noise about being an independant event. Mullenweg and Jaquith even spoke at the first one, so clearly there is no conspiracy to blackball/hamper non-official events. Just hold your event, respect the trademark, move on. Making a big public statement about it just kicks the WP-Outrage machine into high gear, and the community looks worse for it from an outside vantage point.