As of A.D. 2026, Northern hemisphere Summer solstice, FreeCalypso GSM MS project is suspended. I, Mother Mychaela, the author of FreeCalypso, still very much desire my own Libre Dumbphone based on TI Calypso chipset and FreeCalypso firmware — but because I live in USA and the evil overlords of T-Mobile are itching to shut down this country's last remaining GSM/2G network, the work most in need of doing at this point is not a new GSM MS, but a new GSM/2G public phone network.
American 2G Cooperative (A2GC) has been founded for the purpose of doing just that: building a new GSM/2G network in a few small select locations in USA, specifically those rural and remote locations with available spectrum vacancies in either PCS1900 or GSM850 band. A2GC website is currently under construction, but it will eventually reside at www.usa2g.org.
While active development on FreeCalypso is currently paused, all software and other resources that have already been developed and published need to remain accessible. When the old freecalypso.org server was set up in 2015, some key architectural decisions were implemented that run counter to the way I (Mother Mychaela) like to do things. As a result of this situation, I am now in the process of slowly migrating all FreeCalypso resources to a new server that was set up by me from the beginning and where everything is set up the way I like.
The current status of this migration is that all static files
remain accessible at the same URLs as before
(see public area and member area),
but now hosted on the new server.
(If you prefer FTP instead, using a traditional command line FTP client
instead of a web browser, all of the same static files are also available
via ftp.freecalypso.org.)
However, the following components of the old freecalypso.org setup
are currently down:
FreeCalypso Hg (Mercurial) repositories are currently inaccessible. Bringing them back online is an active, high-priority work item for me at this time — while FreeCalypso GSM MS project is suspended, many of the tools and libraries in those Hg repositories are also needed for our current network-side work in A2GC.
The old FreeCalypso community mailing list that had its last activity in 2024 has been shut down — although archives are still preserved. Eventually, probably another several years from now, when I am ready to resume active work on FreeCalypso, I will probably set up a new mailing list or some alternative forum — but it doesn't make much sense to do so while the project is still on indefinite pause.
If you would like to converse with me (Mother Mychaela) regarding any of my GSM work, please feel free to email me.