Well that's what this thread is about... An interest thread. We are getting 10+ members logging on per day, just not all of them posting 

Maybe send out a mail to all members letting them know, if there are 1 or 2 members like you who may be interested, then we can just go ahead and email letting people know that we're doing this   

Good ideas by the way 

- Member of the Year - Nominations needed. Admins excluded.
- Geo-photographer of the year - No nominations needed (just count up the most correct guesses)
- Most interesting thread - nominations needed

(your idea for the off topic one can be merged into "Most interesting thread"