A lot of the development that has changed the course of our field has been done open source, or has open source counterparts.
I am interested in exploring the academic world of computer science but I don't know of any journals that exist in the spirit of FOSS.
Are there any that exist?
For instance, the machine learning group (Yoshua Bengio, Ian Goodfellow, et al.) at the University of Montreal (the people behind open source software like Theano [2], Pylearn 2 [3], etc.) regularly makes papers available on arXiv, and is currently working on a book about Deep Learning, drafts of which are freely available [4].
[0]: http://scholar.google.com [1]: http://arxiv.org [2]: https://github.com/Theano/Theano [3]: https://github.com/lisa-lab/pylearn2 [4: http://www.deeplearningbook.org