If the community agrees then that's fine but I have to respectfully disagree that continuing proof of work at the current rate until October is a good idea.  I have also not heard any really compelling reasons as to why it would be a problem going to POS.  

If you think it would lead to unfair distribution - I have a message for you: Mining is unfair.  The more money you have the more mining hardware you can buy and run - you can also afford to choose your mining location to save on power.  

The only way to make mining fair is to implement a system similar to Minerals and make it even harsher on the maximum hash-rate allowed.  If you force the pools to limit everyone to one miner with a maximum hash-rate of say 20 MH/s then you ensure a fairer distribution.  I doubt anyone has the balls to implement anything like that anyway given how much grief the minerals team got for it.

Until then you will always have larger miners who are able to minimise their costs, mining huge volumes of coins and underselling everyone.  They sell their coins straight away and then move on to the next coin - long term viability of the currency is irrelevant to them.

A big problem in crypto generally has been lacklustre leadership and aimless development. I have mined this currency from the beginning and I for one need to see some kind of development with this coin.  Just coasting along silently with no news waiting for things to happen is just not viable.  In addition to this mining alone will never make a successful coin.  Your average person will never bother with it and there is no point in mining something nobody will ever use.  

This coin has managed to get on Bittrex but if I hadn't pushed things forward that would have never happened.  To be honest this kind of stuff should have been sorted out before the coin was even released.  We need a definite plan with deadlines and proper drive behind it or we will end up another forgotten coin.  This requires proper leadership as well as proper PR management - 2 things that I am sorry to say have been lacking so far.

With this in mind, we need a definite document defining what the current plans for MNR are and we need them ASAP within a week if possible -   How awareness will be raised, utility increased, value will be built into the currency etc.  

Part of development (and this has been seen multiple times in crypto) is that there needs to be good communication of goals and innovations in order to reassure both the community and those who are considering investing.

Following this I propose 2 months to see if the plans succeed.  If in 2 months time the value of MNR is significantly higher we proceed with things as they are.  If not we put the POS question to the community in a poll and let the community decide if POS is the future or not.  

I believe if we all get involved in this we can help to take this coin forward but we will need to work hard.

Brokkir I appreciate that you created this coin, however, that does not give you greater ownership of it than the community.  I would suggest you listen to what the community says. You are also going to need to get hungry to succeed.  In a sense you are at the helm of a new kind of business and in order to succeed you will need to be a bit more forward.