> Our pattern language initiative ended up losing steam
> fairly quickly earlier in the year, mostly due to bad timing.

We are faced with the same situation and I think part of it is the
effort needed to seed a new library (resource conflicts).

Having said that, I'm interested in helping with the standardizing
work because among other things, I believe it would help me with the
issue above.

(I'm interested in hearing other stories about failed attempts at
pattern libraries though, perhaps a good separate conversation).