To me the concept of WordCamps should be rethought. They adding more rules that the cons of organising a WordCamp are non existing. Also they don't apply the rules equal on every WordCamp. I saw WordCamps where a lot of speakers where from outside the city/country and I don't think it has to be a bad thing.

For example I was not allowed to organise WordCamp Serbia because I didn't live there. I got to hear that after a year of e-mail with WC Central. First of all it's completely disrespectful to keep you on the line but secondly I have a huge connection with the country and I know and talk regularly with quite a few developers living there. The only thing where I come short is that I don't really speak the language.

By saying this, I fully understand the guys from WP Tech in their experience. It feels like this could have been prevented by saying a yes or no in the beginning. Also if WordCamp Central really wanted to help out they would have done that. In the end we are all here to make the community better and with WordCamps I have the feeling it's sometimes forgotten.

If it's correct that organisers can only cover expenses for people on the about page then I don't know if I really want to ever organise a WordCamp. First of all it's just plain stupid. Specially for European countries since how cool it is to invite those people, I strongly suggest if they want to invite people (and pay the expenses) from outside that this still should be from Europe. That said making this kind of exceptions is unacceptable from a community standpoint. We all build WordPress. It's not just the core team but it's a big group of people helping out with all kinds of things to make WordPress better.Also I believe speakers did got their hotel covered 1 or 2 years ago at WordCamp San Francisco but I can be wrong about that.