I am not sure about the program committee. I served last year on the Program Committee, and as far as I know none of the three members who did the bulk of the work (Jacek, Danica and myself) had any experience of being previously on the Wikimania Program Committee, and I have not heard from other members that they had such experience. I have also not been contacted by 2011 team to serve on their Program Committee, so that I assume they probably formed the Committee themselves already.
Cheers Yaroslav
Agree that these are important things to deal with. We already have the scholarship committee, which tends to have some folks do it year after year. Same with the program committee. So maybe it would be good to have
another
committee to help visa issues (together with local team)? or have
someone
at WMF who has some experience with that?