You wouldn’t expect Providence’s eclectic tech scene to coagulate around something as pedestrian as a bar. Nonprofit AS220 offers a bar alongside an art gallery and fabrication lab for hackers. Betaspring’s Jack Templin and Allan Tear are regulars, as are Charlie Kroll of Andera and serial entrepreneur Bill O’Farrell of Public Display.

“I can’t think of anybody who doesn’t know where it is — who hasn’t walked by and said, I’ll stop in and see what’s going on,” said Business Innovation Factory’s Melissa Withers. “It’s like rolling the wheel — you never know what you’re going to find down there.”

Full Story: Top 10 Boston tech community locales Source: Mass High Tech, October 21st, 2009 Author: Galen Moore Added on October 21st, 2009 at 10:07 am, by Matt Mikula