@Ryan Hellyer -And now it is affecting events within the open source community.

KJG himself acknowledges that 'issues' existed with Open Source Scotland, independent of his fracas with WordPress. It does seem possible & reasonable, that a degree of pique could be involved.

The Open Source Scotland venue is not "the open source community". It is an attempt to organize a community that already exists, in a particular way, for particular purposes.

The failure of this conference does not alter the "community". Open source people tend to resemble cats, and any effort to herd them is expected to be tricky. The cats are still there, still being cats.