No one in Los Angeles WordPress community has any interest in BuddyPress. I submitted to WordCamp this year about using BP for applications and did not get a response and I frequently propose to showcase BP at WP meetups but I always get the same "maybe" type reply.

I just don't think WP developers here are using BP or understand how it can help their clients. It's exactly the reason they need to learn about it. Developers think it's a Facebook clone plugin.