Last night I attended the inaugural meeting of the San Francisco chapter of ABPMP, which included a presentation by Paul Harmon of BPTrends.
Paul had some interesting comments about a past attempt to start an ABPMP: a couple of years ago, he and a few others tried to get one started in San Francisco, and only vendors showed up. The challenge for this new attempt, as well as our starting chapter in Toronto, will be to create a critical mass of enough end-customer practitioner involvement to make it relevant.