You get so totally into the task that time doesn't have meaning, you become one with the task, the task expresses itself as you' The carpeting, tables, and other equipment was donated. Somehow, whatever they needed just found its way to the centre. Sarena Neyman, of the Holyoke Housing Authority, was allowed to help because the Housing Authority will be creating its own computer centre soon. It's hard to explain to people who have never been committed to anything with intensity, but for those who have, well, you know exactly what I mean. There is something 'sexy' and mysterious about a computer centre that really turns people on.
People can just fall in love with it.
This centre, in Holyoke, during construction, had a nearly constant stream of volunteers coming in, from a carpenter, to offers of free carpet and Internet access, to a laywer who paid a year's electric bill, to banks that offered chairs. Case management' is intangible, it doesn't turn people on. A computer centre is a real, physical entity that is exciting. Case management and counselling will occur, but the centre attracts attention. They are instant Internet access.