Amber,
This is a fantastic idea, and I'm fully supportive too.
Here is what I think that could be useful to form the working group:
- Have a well defined goal to complete in the first 3 months:
--- it would be great if the output of the first goal is presented in the Dataverse community.
--- An example of the output of a goal could be a requirements docs and user stories for a particular feature that extends DDI support in Dataverse.
- The working group should have one (or two) leads that organize the calls, the agenda, and move the goal forward. I assume you will be the lead, right?
- It would be good to have notes on the working group discussions in a google doc (or similar) to be easily shareable with the rest of the Dataverse community,
- It would be good to invite at least one (or two) folks from DDI community (not working on Dataverse necessarily) to participate, and provide input from another perspective. Perhaps there could one person from the DDI controlled vocab group and another from the DDI dev group:
http://www.ddialliance.org/community/working-groups.
How does this sound? Could you think of what would be high-priority or useful as the first 3 months goal?
Merce