BuddyPress.org

I’m trying to avoid issues from the get go – this will be my first ‘poke’ at buddypress and Im anxious to learn how to harness it. Im building a magazine type site where we will have 3 -4 regular contributors, but i want to have a community section to it where members can rate new products and add content of their own to it. So having said that I really like the wordpress Leaf theme, but I am not at all sure if making buddypress work with it is possible. So what I am asking is for suggestions that some more experienced users may have as far as how I can go about choosing a theme that will suit my needs. I just want to get it up and functioning successfully with minimal coding etc if possible. A million thanks!