18/09/2010 - as per minutes of 2009 AGM:


Clause I.15 changed from:

Members may use their share of the server for profit, and create user accounts for non-members provided that in doing so they do not use more than their share of the server or otherwise put themselves in dispute of the Club. A Member’s share of the server is not transferable and will be forfeited if membership is terminated for any reason. Replacement members will be invited to fill any vacancy on a first come first served basis and such replacement members will be required to make a payment in respect of ownership of any hardware as well as the appropriate yearly or part yearly subscription.

to:

Members may use their share of the server for profit, and create user accounts for non-members provided that in doing so they do not use more than their share of the server or otherwise put themselves in dispute of the Club. A Member’s share of the server is not transferable and will be forfeited if membership is terminated for any reason. Replacement members will be invited to fill any vacancy on a first come first served basis. Such replacement members will be required to pay the full Annual Subscription, regardless of when in the Hatters Year they join.


Clause III.3 changed from "...Such meetings will be held at the Mad Hatters pub," to "... Such meetings will be held at the Mad Hatter Hotel,"

01/10/2010 - as per minutes of 2010 AGM:


I. 9 - Equipment judged by simple majority to be unwanted by the Club will be donated to an entirely state-funded academic facility.

changed to:

I. 9 - Equipment judged by simple majority to be unwanted by the Club will be donated to, or sold for, charity.


Delete the following rule:

I. 11 - All members must have a PGP or GNUPG public key available from a public key server agreed by the Club. All communication of passwords must be made via encrypted email. Other communications may be encrypted and/or signed by members at their discretion.


I. 12 - All members must agree to have the following details displayed on a web page accessible to all members of the Club: their full name, email address, public key and list of sites they are responsible for. All members must also agree to display site access statistics showing the total bytes transferred per month per site. To enable fair comparison, the software used for this purpose must be the same for all members, as decided by simple majority.

changed to:

I. 12 - All members must agree to have the following details displayed on a web page accessible to all members of the Club: their full name, email address.


II. 1 - The Club shall elect officers by simple majority vote. Votes must be cast by key-signed email over a period of seven days. All members must either cast their vote or explicitly abstain by midnight British time of the final day of voting. Failure by any member to do so invalidates the election and it must be held again.

changed to:

II. 1 - The Club shall elect officers by simple majority vote. Votes must be cast by over a period of seven days.


Delete the following rule:

II. 5 - The Technical Administrator(s) shall be responsible for necessary maintenance of the server, backup, user accounts, system passwords and other related technical matters on behalf of the Club as a whole, or on behalf of individual members within reason and where those members cannot reasonably perform such duties themselves. Any member of the Club may, however, perform any or all of these duties themselves, subject to Clause I. 13.


Removed the word "pro-rata" from I.3
Removed the words "(or part-Club Yearly for new members)" from I.4

14/09/2013 - as per minutes of 2012 AGM:


III. 2 - qorum changed from 60% to 50%.

12/10/2013 - as per minutes of 2013 AGM:


III. 2 - Deleted "meeting to take place not less than 60 days before the end of each Club Year"

I. 19 - "Annual subscriptions will be payable 60 days before the end of the Club Year..." amended entirely to read "Annual subscriptions will be payable 30 days from date of invoice."

I. 6 - Amended to read "No moneys are refundable at any time or for any reason. An exception to this being on dissolution of the Club, whereupon any surplus funds left unused are to be returned to members equally."