This document provides an outline for a Ph.D. preliminary dissertation proposal on modular ontologies using package-based description logics. The outline discusses motivations for modular ontologies such as collaborative ontology building and selective reuse. It then covers key aspects of the proposed package-based description logics language including packages, package hierarchies, scope limitations, and semantics of importing between packages. The outline concludes by discussing reasoning approaches such as a federated tableau algorithm that allows distributed reasoning across ontology modules without requiring integration.