Ron Rennick

The WP/WPMU author link from the <code>the_author_posts_link()</code> template tag on the blog will link to the author’s buddypress member profile instead of the author’s posts page.
This plugin will only affect blogs where buddypress is activated sitewide. It will function the same in either the mu-plugins folder or in the plugins folder and activated sitewide.

BP Blog Author Link

This plugin changes the blog author links on a buddypress site to link to the author's buddypress member profile.

Daniel Westermann-Clark

By default, WordPress network usernames cannot contain anything but lowercase letters and numbers. This plugin adds network options to let you include hyphens, underscores, or uppercase letters, if desired.
Furthermore, this plugin gives you the option to allow email addresses as usernames, or to allow all-numeric usernames (e.g. “1234”).
Finally, this plugin lets you override the minimum length for usernames (which defaults to four characters).
To follow updates to this plugin, visit:
https://danieltwc.com/
For help with this version, visit:
https://danieltwc.com/2011/network-username-restrictions-override-1-0/

Network Username Restrictions Override

Does what it says!

Override restrictions on WordPress network usernames.

BP Blog Author Link vs Network Username Restrictions Override