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The process as it stands is that you get in touch with Transition Network here, and fill in the 'criteria response form'.  The form asks you to say how your group meets the 15 or so criteria for becoming a Transition initiative.  Transition Network have been known to ask people to change their constitutions so that they have peak oil in them - in fact that's exactly what they did with PEDAL, and not all of us were very happy about it (though we did add it in)!

I think the Network's point of view is that there are certain elements which make Transition initiatives distinct from other community/environmental/social groups - and an acknowledgement that we need to radically re-shape the way we live, so as to be much lower energy consuming (and so low carbon) and much more locally focused (and so resilient to a whole load of difficulties - including peak oil) is pretty central to that.

The question for a Scottish hub is how do we express that distinctiveness while allowing groups who would like to join us to do so, even if there are aspects of the model that they don't sign up to?  This leads to a very interesting discussion about whether there is a 'core' to Transition - or whether it's OK that different people/groups respond to different bits.... and are some bits more important than others?  In order to make any sense of having the name in the first place, you need to draw a line somewhere - and I guess part of our conversation - however we choose to have it, should be about trying to come to some consensus on where and how we want to draw the line.