This is an excellent idea!

I love WordCamps, but I am also terrified of them. Once I get to know someone, I can relax and kid around and be totally at ease. But it is the initial getting to know phase that usually does me in.

I don't want to bother someone I don't know. And I don't want to be the creepy fat old dude who wants to be noticed and liked by the cool folks and ends up being someone lurking just outside the conversational comfort zone.

Sometimes I just flee back to hotel room to take a break - and yell at myself for being such a loser and missing opportunities to make new friends.

"Real" or not, this is my reality, but I am slowly trying to learn to just fake it and act like I belong. If I can do that at least 10% of the time at a WordCamp, I feel like it has been a successful event for me.