A few advices for your forum:
1st: You need some sort of authority. Be it moderators or admins, be it 1 or 15 people, you need authority. If only for excessive retards and spam.
2nd: 12 boards for 11 users... that's the best way to have a dead community. We saw it here, for small communities, it's best to concentrate the posts in few boards. I recommend one general board, and the rest of the boards for site news and important/specific matter like that.
Good luck.