ot in the sense
&gt;of "in memoriam", I hope, but in the sense of concerted work,
&gt;to the task of coming to a "solidly underfoot organization"
&gt;of these concepts.

Good luck.  But it is important to emphasize the pragmatic results:
how can the abstract theory lead to better ways of representing,
talking about, and reasoning about the problems that the SUO people
are trying to solve?

The best collaboration has to work both ways:  the people with the
problems have to explain what they need to represent