I have issues with a lot of conferences. The panels are rehashing the same stuff over and over and over, and the “real” work gets done at the parties or talks in the hall between sessions.

She’s Geeky is an “unconference,” meaning that there are no panels, long keynotes, or presentations. All we talk about is what we talk about. It’s awesome.

The first session I went to this morning was about gaming…and it wasn’t even my session, someone else ran it! It was fantastic, an hour or so just talking with a whole bunch of women as interested in games as I was. We also focused on areas of games that you wouldn’t hear at a typical conference – educational, children’s, casual games, that sort of stuff.

My big takeaway (in addition to meeting all these great women) was the discovery of a program called Alice. Not only does it have the same name as my fantabulous niece, but it is – get this – a 3d GAME that teaches kids programming. REAL programming. I am blown away, and am totally going to use it.

Liz Henry also has a good writeup on the session, and I will add links to others as they come online.

I’m currently in a session about twitter, talking on twitter. I think that says enough right there about how much Twitter effects our lives these days. As someone just said… “it is the ultimate elevator pitch.”