I believe that a lot of people were confused and scared (understandably) by my use of the term "partnership".  After discussing this [in length][1] I've come up with a more understandable proposal/solution:

https://meta.superuser.com/questions/6860/expanding-our-product-reviews-for-the-blog

<sup>*Note, I don't normally ask a similar question like this, however in this case, an edit to my current question would've rendered the current answers useless.  I'm accepting this answer for this reason.</sup>

  [1]: http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/356/conversation/partnership