Whois & Analysis for webstandards.org

The Web Standards Project (WaSP) was a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, along with other groups and standards bodies.

A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a political movement) is one which uses the people in a given district as the basis for a political or economic movement.

Grassroots movements and organizations utilize collective action from the local level to effect change at the local, regional, national, or international level.

Grassroots movements are associated with bottom-up, rather than top-down decision making, and are sometimes considered more natural or spontaneous than more traditional power structures.

Grassroots movements, using self-organization, encourages community members to contribute by taking responsibility and action for their community.

Grassroots movements utilize a variety of strategies from fundraising and registering voters, to simply encouraging political conversation.

Goals of specific movements vary, but the movements are consistent in their focus on increasing mass participation in politics.

These political movements may begin as small and at the local level, but grassroots politics as Cornel West contends are necessary in shaping progressive politics as they bring public attention to regional political concerns.

Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a median household income as rated by country, State (province), region, or municipality by a recognized Housing Affordability Index.

In Australia, the National Affordable Housing Summit Group developed their definition of affordable housing as housing that is, "...reasonably adequate in standard and location for lower or middle income households and does not cost so much that a household is unlikely to be able to meet other basic needs on a sustainable basis." In the United Kingdom affordable housing includes "social rented and intermediate housing, provided to specified eligible households whose needs are not met by the market." Most of the literature on affordable housing refers to mortgages and number of forms that exist along a continuum – from emergency shelters, to transitional housing, to non-market rental (also known as social or subsidized housing), to formal and informal rental, indigenous housing and ending with affordable home ownership.

Simple living or voluntary simplicity encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle.

These may include reducing one's possessions, generally referred to as minimalism, or increasing self-sufficiency, for example.

Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfied with what they have rather than want.

Although asceticism generally promotes living simply and refraining from luxury and indulgence, not all proponents of simple living are ascetics.

Simple living is distinct from those living in forced poverty, as it is a voluntary lifestyle choice.

A coalition is a pact or treaty among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause.

This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience.

A coalition thus differs from a more formal covenant.

Possibly described as a joining of 'factions', usually those with overlapping interests rather than opposing.