CZ:Topic Partners

This is a proposal to be vetted by the Editorial Council and the Executive Committee. --Larry Sanger 16:21, 14 May 2007 (CDT)

Since first announcing the Citizendium, we have been contacted by people at multiple potential content partners. You'd be surprised, in fact, at the names, including two major government agencies and three household-name corporations. But we have never been able to take these potential partnerships to the next level, because when it comes down to making a partnership operational, we have simply said, "When you want to sit down to talk, we can hash out the details." But things then slip through the cracks, because we, and the people we're talking to, don't have time to "hash out the details."

There may be a better way. I propose a Citizendium Topic Partner Program. Its aim is to offer a uniform framework in which the Citizendium can partner with organizations that either want to manage or fund work about a certain topic, or in a certain area.