Ludovico Besana

Open source and community

Useful work deserves an open conversation.

I use open source to turn experiments, learning, and practical quality ideas into things people can inspect, challenge, reuse, and improve together.

What open source means to me

A practice of generosity and accountability.

Open source makes the reasoning visible: not only the finished result, but the trade-offs, constraints, documentation, and discussions that shape it. That transparency is valuable in quality work because it invites evidence and constructive disagreement.

I care about projects that respect contributors’ time: a clear problem, honest boundaries, understandable documentation, and a path for someone new to take part without pretending that every contribution must be code.

Selected public work

Projects and resources to explore.

The GitHub profile is the source of truth for the latest activity, issues, releases, and ways to contribute.

open-personal-tracking

A local-first, account-free personal tracking platform designed around ownership, export, and no mandatory cloud.

Explore the project

awesome-maestro

A curated resource for tools, guides, talks, and examples around Maestro mobile UI automation.

Browse the collection

Agentic QA Loop demo

A public conference demo exploring how telemetry, human-readable QA intent, MCP, and Playwright can work together without bypassing review.

View the demo

Make the work inspectable

Clear examples, documentation, and honest limitations are as useful as a repository’s code.

Welcome first contributions

A healthy community explains context, makes space for questions, and recognises more than merged pull requests.

Sustain what is useful

Maintenance takes time. Sponsorship is one optional way to support the public work people rely on.

Support the work

If the work helps, you can help sustain it.

Following a project, opening a thoughtful issue, sharing feedback, contributing, or sponsoring are all meaningful ways to take part.