{"issue":{"milestone":null,"user":{"id":242848,"login":"grgcombs","url":"https://api.github.com/users/grgcombs","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d136e0b679d73d526c5f65a95dcb1b00?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"d136e0b679d73d526c5f65a95dcb1b00"},"title":"Feature Requests for Event API (more standardization) (gcode #222)","created_at":"2011-07-16T19:55:36Z","updated_at":"2011-12-19T04:04:10Z","labels":[{"name":"api","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sunlightlabs/openstates/labels/api","color":"009900"},{"name":"feature request","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sunlightlabs/openstates/labels/feature+request","color":"02d7e1"}],"state":"open","id":1235927,"pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_url":null},"html_url":"https://github.com/sunlightlabs/openstates/issues/73","closed_at":null,"body":"Are all times still encoded as UTC or are they local times now?  I was looking at Utah and I thought I saw some meeting times were 3 or 4am once I localized them ...\r\n\r\nCan we set the \"link\" field to use the first sources.url if there isn't one set already?\r\n\t\r\nFor states besides TX, can we scrape the meeting announcement text into notes wherever possible?\r\n\t\r\nDitto for scraping committee and chamber strings for the \"participants\" wherever possible (like in TX).\r\n\t\r\nA big huge request would be to standardize on some kind of \"title\" for the event.  The \"description\" field varies greatly  from state to state.  Some include the type, date, and time in the string, others just have the title.  Would be great if this title had normalized capitalization (I'm staring at you, Kentucky!).\r\n\r\nBasically, I'm trying to build a consistent, concise summary text for each event to display in a limited amount of space.  Ideally, I could get a lot of this for free from the API with a little more standardization on either the \"description\" field or the addition of a new \"title\" or \"summary\" field ...\r\n\r\n\"(S) Business & Commerce\\n   When: 7/28/11 - 10:00 AM\\n  Location: E1.016 (Hearing Room)\"\r\n\"(H) Higher Education\\n   When: 7/30/11 - 9:00 AM\\n  Location: E2.543 - (CANCELED)\"\r\n\r\n Alternatively, a \"title\" field could simply be \"Business & Commerce\" and I can cook up the rest from the other data you've inserted into the event dictionary.\r\n\r\nGreg\r\n\r\n----------------------------------\r\n\r\nhttp://code.google.com/p/openstates/issues/detail?id=222","number":73,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sunlightlabs/openstates/issues/73","comments":1,"assignee":null},"comment":{"user":{"id":242848,"login":"grgcombs","url":"https://api.github.com/users/grgcombs","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d136e0b679d73d526c5f65a95dcb1b00?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"d136e0b679d73d526c5f65a95dcb1b00"},"created_at":"2011-12-19T04:04:10Z","updated_at":"2011-12-19T04:04:10Z","id":3199049,"body":"Still interested in this. I particularly like the idea of using a \"link\" or something to provide web access to the event/meeting announcement.   If possible, it'd be great to supply the relevant chamber or better yet a committee ID for committee meetings. ","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sunlightlabs/openstates/issues/comments/3199049"},"action":"created"}