# Welcome to the Research Computing Stack Exchange Question Staging Area **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta Discussion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/welcome-to-the-research-computing-stack-exchange-question-staging-area/185 "2018-04-27T14:42:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/user_avatar/ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/jma/32/303_2.png) [@jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/jma)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/welcome-to-the-research-computing-stack-exchange-question-staging-area/185/1 "2018-04-27T14:42:39Z")
Welcome! This site is currently being used as a staging area for the [Research Computing Stack Exchange site.](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/114273/research-computing) as we prepare for [beta](http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq). We have three goals that we are trying to achieve prior to PEARC18 (July 22-24). They are: 1. Prepare 150 well-formed Stack Exchange-esque Research Computing Questions that can be loaded into our site when we reach beta. (See Aaron Culich’s post “How do I ask a good SE-ready Research Computing question”) 2. Build a community of people that will “Own” these questions, ensure they are in the stack exchange format, and load them when our site reaches Beta, 3. Build a community of people (some might be the same as in point 2) with a 200+ reputation on any public Stack Exchange that will be willing to help launch our site. HOW YOU CAN HELP! Please help us in reaching any of the above goals! Contact [jma@mghpcc.org](mailto:jma@mghpcc.org) if you have any questions, or please join us on our weekly one hour zoom/call on Fridays at 11AM EST, 10CST, 9 MST, 8 PST, dubbed “Reputathon”, where we work on questions together to get everyone in sync with the process. zoom coordinates at the end of this post. Please visit the [Northeast Cyberteam Portal](https://necyberteam.org/stack-info) for more information about this project! **DETAILS:** We are collecting Research Computing questions from a wide variety of sources (and please feel free to contribute more), and then formatting them to meet StackExchange[TM] criteria for a well-formed question. There are two labels and three tags that we are using to identify questions that are on their way to being Stack Exchange Ready: **CURATOR:** - the person that will load the following three pieces of information about the question into the stack exchange when it reaches beta **ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS** (Optional) - Acknowledge the source of the question or answer if there was significant effort to create the content Criteria for tags **zeta:ready-for-review** - the question has met launch criteria **zeta:needs-answer** - the question has all four of the above labels identified, and ideally also has at least one answer, although this is not required at this time **zeta:launch-ready** - the question has been reviewed by another person and is ready for the launch of the discourse site **zeta:se-ready** - the question has been reviewed by a Stack Exchange Expert (reputation 3000+), and looks good for stack exchange **review-requested** _To get started, pick any question labeled review-for-se that does not already have a name after “CURATOR” in the body of the question, and insert your name. Then read the post about “How to ask a good SE question” and go for it!! If you think that you re ready for review, add the tag “meta:almost-ready” and send a quick note to Julie at [jma@mghpcc.org](mailto:jma@mghpcc.org) and I will put it on the list! Thanks for your interest and participation!!_ Why are we doing this staging effort? - COMING SOON Best, Julie ---
**Author:** ![jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/user_avatar/ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/jma/32/303_2.png) [@jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/jma)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/welcome-to-the-research-computing-stack-exchange-question-staging-area/185/2 "2018-04-27T14:43:01Z")
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**Author:** ![jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/user_avatar/ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/jma/32/303_2.png) [@jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/jma)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/welcome-to-the-research-computing-stack-exchange-question-staging-area/185/3 "2018-04-27T14:59:46Z")
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**Author:** ![jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/user_avatar/ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/jma/32/303_2.png) [@jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/jma)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/welcome-to-the-research-computing-stack-exchange-question-staging-area/185/4 "2018-04-27T15:04:36Z")
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**Author:** ![jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/user_avatar/ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/jma/32/303_2.png) [@jma](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/u/jma)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://ask.cyberinfrastructure.org/t/welcome-to-the-research-computing-stack-exchange-question-staging-area/185/5 "2018-05-24T19:12:27Z")