You should also visit http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/ where you can find information about dev chat sessions on IRC (next one will be Wednesday, 20th October – 19:00 UTC)
Please use https://trac.buddypress.org/ for bug reporting, this way your fixes have a chance of being applied to the core and released to the community.
Good luck with your project and thank you for choosing BuddyPress!
