Civic technologists put on demos: the Loomio system from Occupy Wellington, the Polis system from Occupy Seattle. Every day, using those tools, we looked at the divisions, the uncommon grounds that people could agree on, and the remaining disagreements. One bridge at a time, we converged on a coherent set of proposals. Three weeks later, the head of the parliament simply said: OK, the crowdsourced version has passed. Go home.