title: Getting to Digital Preservation Tools that “Just Work”: Panel 
creators: Andrea Goethals Paul Wheatley Stephen Abrams Janet Delve Ed Fay Christopher Lee Dirk von Suchodoletz
abstract: In this paper, we describe a panel that discussed experiences, strategies, challenges and lessons learned maintaining and funding digital preservation tools that are available for use by the digital preservation community. The panel, together with the audience, explored the challenges and discussed potential solutions to developing more robust and sustainable support structures for these tools. 
keywords: digital preservation tools open-source enhancements software development funding