In reply to chrislema.

I'm in agreement with Chris - pretty much sums things up for me. If you want to create a great conference based around whatever you wish you can as long as you don't use trademarks. If you have a solid schedule, great venue and awesome speakers then you can run it how you wish, charge if you want (or not) and pay for speakers (or not). It's a free market so do what you need to do.

If however you wish to use the branding, infrastructure etc that is offered by WordCamp Central then you go that route and abide by the foundations rules.

My personal view, and I've only managed to get to a few WordCamps so far, is that although great events for mixing with people, I don't learn much that I want. That's a personal thing of course, but I think it's because of rules in place for promoting services, products etc. that I believe is in place.

I understand the reasoning behind this but again it opens the door quite well for those events being held that don't fall under the regulations or the WordCamp stamp.

With regard to the initial post, I don't see an issue. They had a square block and it didn't fit in the round hole supplied. So they make a new square hole and carry on right?