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?