The talk was given by Andrew Hutchings, the Chief Contributions Officer for the MariaDB Foundation, at the FOSDEM conference in 2023. He explained the different entities associated with MariaDB, including the Server, the Corporation, and the Foundation. He highlighted the importance of contributions to the project, not just code contributions but also funding, documentation, bug reports, and feature requests. Hutchings discussed the statistics on contributions to MariaDB in 2022 and the different metrics used to track the community's contributions. He outlined the steps for contributing code to MariaDB, from communication to opening a pull request. The talk emphasized the importance of community contributions and building a diverse input from a wide range of life experiences.