Networking is necessary but not sufficient (unless you are a con artist or a bullshitter), and networking can be very broadly defined to include things other than schmoozing. Pushing open source code that gets attention is networking. Contributing to projects is networking. Creating stuff independently that people like is networking even if they never directly interact with you. Networking just means communicating with other people in any way so as to make them aware of your existence and that you can do something of value to them.
