I've been to another convention before FurFright2006
http://www.furfright.org/ it was wild time, in fact KwisA from Amsterdam, NL came there and was farthest traveled fursuiter at whole con :3 Amazing time!!!
Now, By time of EF13 this year I will have also taken the experience of AnthroCon07 *points at an Onkel Kage and chortles*
Now, you mentioned concern about being able to find people? Well at FurFright06 ( here after FF or FF06 ) since it was no more than 520 constituents it really was not that hard to find people in the small airport/hotel space :3 it was wild time!!!
Now in terms of large scale conventions such as AnthroCon ( here after AC ) this has been told of to me that people have planned very hard to meet each other at AC and never actually end up meeting up :/ I don't mean to frighten you, but if what i Understand is to be correct, that we will ESSENTIALLY have whole entire hotel to self save for people that have registered way long time before us... So if you are at the hotel you probably are a furry :3
I'm coming over from "Cross The Pond" from U S and A land >.> New York State to be exact, around Albany, the Capital of NY! I am very much so excited and cannot wait ;3
*yaffs!*
Another first timer here. Haven't ever been to a con before so this is going to be interesting. My girlfriend will be coming too but other than that I've no idea about anyone else. How do you people find each other at these places?!
I hope to get to know some of you here so maybe I'll have a few more people to meet at the con itself. And if there's anyone around who recognises me, gimme a shout! 
