Research Associate in Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester in the UK, the Open Science Champion in her department where she advocates, gives presentations and organises events relating to open science in astronomy. She is also in the current cohort of Mozilla Open Leaders, working on a project to develop an Open Science how-to kit for astronomers to provide them with a resource to help them research openly from proposal to publication. The project is called Resources for Open Science in Astronomy (ROSA), and is seeking contributions relating to all things Open, not necessarily specific to Astronomy. The project is envisioned to result in a general Open Science toolkit which can be adapted for use in any field - Astronomy in her case. 
Jack Reid: Jack Reid. I was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Currently a graduate student at MIT in two departments, the aeronautics and astronautics department and the technology and policy program.
Luis: We need some info here!

Thoughts on open media

Thoughts on open con

Gary McDowell (@BiophysicalFrogFuture of Research (@FORsymp)) (this is done):
Gary McDowell is the Executive Director of Future of Research, a non-profit that aims to champion, engage and empower early career researchers with evidence-based resources about the scientific enterprise. Coming to OpenCon overlaps directly with Gary's work and interests. "I really enjoy OpenCon because there's sort of two facets in which I'm interested about open science. The first is practicing open science myself, and that has been the case in both when I was a bench researcher but also in what I'm doing now. Part of the whole premise is to make academia more transparent and putting data out there, making it openly available, open for critique." Future of Research has data open for analysis right now on postdoc salaries in the US. "We have already had some cool people sharing code and excellent plots of distributions or salaries, which is really awesome."
But there is also a higher level aspect, under Future of Research's mission "of trying to help early career researchers practice science...we are thinking how to enable people to practice open science and act as a group that can try and push for that as part of the policies that we are trying to implement. And so trying to figure out how a lot of the same issues come up again in all these different themes of open science: struggling for independence, trying to find what kind of job you want, regardless whether it's academia or not, these things all have the same kind of issues coming up for early career researchers."