This document discusses open source communities and the DENT open source ecosystem. It notes that DENT utilizes community activities and resources as a Linux Foundation project. It relies on an active project and community to guarantee future success. The community champions DENT by maintaining and documenting code both upstream and downstream. DENT provides alternative software packages by leveraging technology immunity. It uses the Linux kernel, switchdev, ONIE, netlink, and systemd as the basis for a new standardized network operating system without abstractions or overhead.